While entering your first semester at UW-Madison it is always hard to make a decision on which classes to take. Throughout history, and currently, the black community in the United States has been facing forms of individual, systemic, and institutionalized racism for the past 400 years. As the University of Wisconsin-Madison has had an issue Read More…
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“Literature and the Environment” Do Yourself a Favor. Take it.
You’re a freshman at UW-Madison. You need a 3-credit literature course. The word “literature” sucks the life out of you. Walls of text haunt you in your daydreams. (Daymares?) What to do? Fortunately, at UW there are some great Lit courses. I hit a bullseye with Environmental Studies/English 153: Literature and the Environment with Dr. Read More…
LSC 450: A Course That Will Help You Communicate Photographically
Gunther Nelson is a great Professor that is dedicated to what he teaches. In LSC 450 students are trained to think photographically to communicate science, health and the environment. Throughout the course students give presentations on master photographers such as Elliot Erwitt, Damon Winter, Diane Arbus and Annie Leibovitz among many others. In addition students Read More…
Not Afraid of a Challenge? Take J669, You Won’t Regret It
As a freshman, I had no idea what I wanted to major in. All I knew for sure was that I loved to write. I wanted to try a Journalism class my second semester, but wasn’t sure which one. My advisor recommended a 3 credit class called J669: Literary Aspects of Journalism. Within the first Read More…
Explore Black Popular Music with Afro-American Studies 156
Alexander Shashko is the Best! What a class! If you like to learn more about the origins of hip-hop rap, jazz, and rock n roll came to be this is the perfect class to be in. The professor, Alexander Shashko, really knows his history and is always enthusiastic to share his own personal music views Read More…
English 173: A Course that will Help you be the Change
The United States along with the rest of the world is in desperate need of change and leaders who are educated on various topics of racism, police brutality, microaggressions, along with other forms of systematic oppression. It is in our hands as students to learn about these problematic issues so that we can be the Read More…
From Warhol to WeiWei: A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Art
As I began my journey in Journalism and Communication Arts at UW-Madison, I decided to take an Art course to offset my other courses and keep my creativity progressing. This course, Art 107: An Introduction To Digital Forms, was revolutionary to my academic and career path. The course offers an introduction to various digital art Read More…
Don’t like math? Philosophy 210 is the class for you.
Throughout my life, math and I have not been good friends. When we were, and I thought the exam was easy, it turned out I had failed the exam. Coming into college I thought I was able to take whatever classes I wanted; however, I quickly came to realize that we had these things called Read More…
Need to Fulfill a Com B Requirement Without Hurting Your GPA? African 201 May be the Class for You.
Picking classes to fulfill requirements can be tricky. But, it has been made easier with websites like “Rate My Professor” and “Mad Grades”. “Rate My Professor” gives student feedback on professors and courses, while “Mad Grades” shows grade-distributions of courses taken at UW-Madison. Feedback from these sites is why I decided to take Professor Brown’s Read More…
The Whimsical World of Italian Film
Communication Arts 460, or Italian Film, is one of my favorite classes I’ve taken during my time at UW Madison. It is taught by Professor Patrick Rumble and consisted only of small lectures of about sixty people. I went into the class without any expectations of the coursework or difficulty level, but was pleasantly surprised. Read More…