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12 courses
Ranked courses have at least 100 recorded letter grades.
Explores human flourishing through science and humanities, focusing on resilience, compassion, and community to build self-awareness and meaningful engagement in life and career.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Tony Chambers
The workload included weekly journals and quizzes, which students found super easy and interesting.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Explores personal, institutional, and community resources optimizing academic success and persistence using didactic and experiential methods.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Clinical Communication Skills provides didactic and experiential training in clinical communication and listening, covering research, theory, and the impact of personal and cultural characteristics in various settings.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Corissa Lotta
The course required a lot of work, though the material itself was considered simple enough for most students.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to the intersectionality framework in the U.S. focused on culturally responsive awareness, critical perspective-taking, and service learning preparation.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Alberta Gloria
Students reported a significant reading load and noted that Dr. Gloria was nit-picky about assignments, deducting points for minor organizational issues. The workload was generally manageable if students provided detailed responses.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026The Wisconsin Experience Seminar examines the transition to UW-Madison by exploring the research university and the Wisconsin Experience using texts for discussion, writing, and experiential assignments.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Brianna Kuhn
Assignments were personal expository writings, and the reviewer noted that attending class was enough to do well.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Mental Health, Self-Awareness, and Social Justice: Working in Diverse Communities increases knowledge and skills for addressing mental health within diverse identity groups and communities.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Larissa Niec
The class required three to four readings weekly, some spanning hundreds of pages, plus an in-person graded takeaway at the start of each lecture.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Research and theory of abnormal psychology, covering etiology, manifestation, and diagnosis of mental health disorders, with emphasis on developmental psychopathology and cultural issues in assessment.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Special topics course examining various subjects within the fields of Counseling and Counseling Psychology.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to mental health concerns, protective/risk factors, and evidence-based intervention/prevention programs for wellbeing across the lifespan.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Introduction to Qualitative Research provides an overview of qualitative inquiry, examining assumptions, standards, and methods for generating and communicating interpretations.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Instruction and/or practice in specialized counseling approaches, strategies, and techniques; working with various populations of clients served by counselors.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Professional Counseling Orientation covers counselor roles, ethical/legal standards, the ACA Code of Ethics, and credentialing standards for mental health counseling.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Fall 2025