Spring 2027

Advanced Conversation

Advanced Conversation focuses on practicing and improving conversational Spanish while forming and presenting opinions on cultural and social issues affecting Latin America and the US.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sarli Mercado4.0/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Veronica Egon

Work included homework, take-home exams, presentations, and out-of-class assignments that compiled into a portfolio graded at the semester's midpoint and end.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Discuss and evaluate relevant social and cultural events in the Spanish-speaking world.

  • Recognize errors in language use in an effort to reduce or eliminate said errors in communication.

  • Employ new vocabulary and linguistic devices in speaking and writing.

  • Measure progress in linguistic fluency as it relates to complex or topical conversation in Spanish.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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SPANISH 226 or 311

SPANISH 325

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Professors

Spring 2027

Sarli Mercado

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About this rating

Raw average: 4.26/5 from 34 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.88 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.54 GPA, 82.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

IVY CORFIS is recorded teaching in Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KRISTIN M. NEUMAYER is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Spring 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SARLI MERCADO is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

VERONICA V EGON is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2013, Fall 2014. 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 001Classroom Instruction0 / 270
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 270

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Kristin Neumayer, Ivy Corfis

Past students found the course highly supportive, with instructors who genuinely wanted everyone to improve their speaking fluency without comparing students to one another.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.86 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.74 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=47 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Veronica Egon

Work included homework, take-home exams, presentations, and out-of-class assignments that compiled into a portfolio graded at the semester's midpoint and end.

Past student reviews · Ivy Corfis

Students noted that the three presentations were straightforward and that active class participation was sufficient to pass, while feeling they learned significantly.

Topics

  • Cultural and social issues affecting Latin America and the US
  • Appropriate vocabulary and language for opinion presentation
  • Relevant social and cultural events in the Spanish-speaking world
  • Complex or topical conversation in Spanish

Skills

  • Conversational Spanish practice and improvement
  • Forming and presenting opinions on cultural and social issues affecting Latin America and the US
  • Recognizing errors in language use to reduce or eliminate communication errors
  • Employing new vocabulary and linguistic devices in speaking and writing
  • Measuring progress in linguistic fluency for complex or topical conversation in Spanish

Grades

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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 · 0.12 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

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Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
SPANISH 325 · Spring 2027

Advanced Conversation

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

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Model & dataset provenance 
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