# RACHEL BRENNER — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison [View on UW Courses](https://uwcourses.com/instructors/RACHEL_BRENNER--instructor_a5017ad7f397d9da43ac367a) ## Dataset ### revision e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349 ### repository twangodev/uwcourses ### schema version 6 ### importer version 7 ### projection id 85abe9ff8837c2c5a134368dcc4cfc85eb723524b21ddeb3d2e953887d2f0c8f ### observed at 2026-09-07T15:55:43.033547+00:00 ### built at 2026-09-11T07:45:51.576183+00:00 ### courses 8951 ### current instructors 5754 ### limited false ### terms * 1272 * 1264 * 1262 * 1254 * 1252 * 1244 * 1242 * 1234 * 1232 * 1224 * 1222 * 1212 * 1204 * 1202 * 1194 * 1192 * 1184 * 1182 * 1174 * 1172 * 1164 * 1162 * 1154 * 1152 * 1144 * 1142 * 1134 * 1132 * 1124 * 1122 * 1114 * 1112 * 1104 * 1102 * 1094 * 1092 * 1084 * 1082 * 1074 * 1072 ### term 1272 ### departments | subject | count | | --------- | ----- | | AAE | 90 | | ABT | 20 | | ACCTIS | 36 | | ACTSCI | 14 | | AFAERO | 10 | | AFRICAN | 87 | | 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| 1192 | 2 | | 1194 | 2 | | 1202 | 2 | | 1204 | 3 | | 1212 | 2 | ## term 1272 ## courses None recorded. ## reviews ### items ```json [ { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:10:57.378277+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTMzMTU1NjYx", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:317959", "instructor_name": "Rachel Brenner", "course_label": "CJS430", "course_id": null, "course_uid": null, "review_date": "2020-04-29 14:53:23 +0000 UTC", "comment": "Brenner is a brilliant and insightful professor. She is wildly intelligent and kind and genuinely cares for her students, but she can be very short and come off as judgemental on occasion. Lots of readings and short papers due before each class, but it wasn't unbearable. Would definitely recommend her as a professor, but you have to put in effort.", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/317959", "quality_rating": 5, "difficulty_rating": 3 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:10:57.378277+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTMyNDI3Njg3", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:317959", "instructor_name": "Rachel Brenner", "course_label": "JS231", "course_id": null, "course_uid": null, "review_date": "2019-11-17 17:37:28 +0000 UTC", "comment": "Professor Brenner is a wildly intelligent teacher and scholar and I learned a lot from her and her class. That being said, she can be extremely curt and short with students who do not understand what she is attempting to convey. 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She's very passionate and you will definitely learn a lot.", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/317959", "quality_rating": 4, "difficulty_rating": 2 }, { "observed_at": "2026-09-07 16:10:57.378277+00:00", "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4", "source_review_id": "UmF0aW5nLTI5OTM3Nzg1", "source_instructor_id": "rmp:317959", "instructor_name": "Rachel Brenner", "course_label": "JEWISH430", "course_id": "JEWISH 430", "course_uid": "course_bb11b243e1e0d7dbf14c5948", "review_date": "2018-04-30 18:12:28 +0000 UTC", "comment": "She required us to attend 3 lectures outside of designated class time. The lectures were all during the day, when most of us had other classes. She told us if we had another class, we had to miss it or we wouldn't get points. Very smart woman but not very understanding/compassionate", "source_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/317959", "quality_rating": 2, "difficulty_rating": 1 } ] ``` ### total 18 ### page 1 ### courses | course\_uid | course\_id | | -------------------------------- | ---------- | | course\_35b64b4b24fe6946834c236e | JEWISH 231 | | course\_bb11b243e1e0d7dbf14c5948 | JEWISH 430 | ### matched true ## social Image false