Spring 2027

Third Semester Spanish

SPANISH 203 is an intermediate third-semester Spanish course focused on language review, Hispanic readings, culture, and conversational patterns.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Beatrice Steinhilber

A student in Beatrice Steinhilber's class found the course difficult, but said exams got easier as the class progressed and students could drop one exam.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Produce, with few to no errors in spelling, Spanish vocabulary related to family, cultural customs, traditions and values, food, politics, and historical figures.

  • Produce, with few to no errors in grammar, simple and compound sentences that are comprehensible to a native speaker of Spanish with experience in English.

  • Read, discuss, and comment upon brief non-fiction and full-length literary texts adapted for intermediate-level Spanish learners.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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SPANISH 102, 103 or placement into SPANISH 203

SPANISH 203 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BEATRICE STEINHILBER is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

BENNETT GERBER is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

BRIANNA BUTERA is recorded teaching in Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CARLOS ROJAS is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DENISE CASTILLO is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

EMILY FRERICHS is recorded teaching in Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ERIN RUSS is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

FELIPE MORAGA is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Fall 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

GIOSUE ALAGNA is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JAMIE DE MOYA-COTTER is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MICHELLE MARIE SHARP is recorded teaching in Fall 2006. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 270
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 270
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 270
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 270
LEC 005Classroom Instruction0 / 270

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Giosue Alagna, Brianna Butera

Past students found the class fun and helpful. Giosue Alagna emphasized real-world Spanish, while Brianna Butera prepared lessons with effort.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.47 GPA, 67.6% A/AB (n=139 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.59 GPA, 76.4% A/AB (n=157 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.58 GPA, 68.9% A/AB (n=119 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Beatrice Steinhilber

A student in Beatrice Steinhilber's class found the course difficult, but said exams got easier as the class progressed and students could drop one exam.

Past student reviews · Denise Castillo

A former TA, Denise Castillo, was described as kind and caring about students, grading quite easily for those who tried and were decently good at Spanish.

Topics

  • Intermediate Spanish language review.
  • Hispanic and literary readings.
  • Hispanic culture, customs, traditions, and values.
  • Patterns of conversation.
  • Thematic Spanish vocabulary including family, food, politics, and historical figures.
  • Spanish sentence structure and grammar.

Skills

  • Produce Spanish vocabulary with accurate spelling across cultural, domestic, political, and historical topics.
  • Produce simple and compound Spanish sentences with minimal grammar errors.
  • Read and interpret adapted non-fiction and literary Spanish texts.
  • Discuss and comment on Spanish-language texts at an intermediate level.
  • Use intermediate Spanish conversational patterns.
  • Connect Spanish language use to Hispanic cultural contexts.

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.16 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
SPANISH 203 · Spring 2027

Third Semester Spanish

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Student reviews

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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Full model traces

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Model & dataset provenance 
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