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UW-Madison Classes

A review of my coursework at Wisconsin-Madison

Published Updated Sam Baumohl

Below are the courses I took at UW-Madison, which I attended from Fall 2022 until Spring 2026. The credit count for each course is in parentheses; if a credit count isn’t indicated, a course is three credits. I originally declared a double major in Computer Sciences and Legal Studies. But, I dropped Legal Studies and picked up a Math certificate (equivalent to a minor). Comprehensive Honors required Honors in the Liberal Arts and Honors in the Major for Computer Sciences, which requires some additional courses and additional honors work. Some courses are seminars or passion courses created by one professor, and taking them with another may result in a vastly different experience. For those classes, I’ll include the professor’s name.

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Legend:

  • (!): Particularly challenging, intense, or required many hours of work
  • (=): Gen-ed course
  • (+): Graduate, honors optional, honors only, or accelerated honors course
  • (^): Particularly interesting or enjoyable

Spring 2026

  • CS 682: Senior Honors Thesis, Second Semester w/ Prof. Manolis Vlatakis (!+)
  • HIST SCI 160: Engineering Inequality (=+^)

Fall 2025

Spring 2025

  • CS 537 (4): Intro. to Operating Systems1 (!^)
  • MATH 632: Intro. to Stochastic Processes (!)
  • GERMAN 276: Global Readers; Digital Age (=+)
  • CS 839: Game Theory, Optimization & Learning w/ Prof. Manolis Vlatakis (+^)

Fall 2024

  • CS 532: Matrix Methods in Machine Learning
  • CS 544: Intro. to Big Data Systems (^)
  • MATH 421: Intro. to the Theory of Single Variable Calculus
  • MATH 431: Intro. to the Theory of Probability (!)
  • PHILOS 543: AI Ethics w/ Prof. Annette Zimmermann (^)

Spring 2024

  • CS 354: Machine Organization and Programming (^)
  • POLI SCI 601: Proseminar: Topics in Political Science w/ Prof. Ryan Owens (!+)
  • ANTHRO 105: Principles of Biological Anthropology (=+)
  • CS 540: Intro. to Artificial Intelligence
  • CS 368 (1): Learning a Programming Language (C++) (^)

Fall 2023

  • INTER-LS 210 (1): L&S Career Development
  • ILS 203: Western Culture: Literature and the Arts I (=+^)
  • CS 577 (4): Intro. to Algorithms
  • CS 252: Intro. to Computer Engineering
  • MATH 340: Elementary Matrix and Linear Algebra

Summer 2023

  • INTL ST 501 (4): Global Security

Spring 2023

  • CS 400: Programming III (!)
  • SOC 220 (4): Ethnic Movements in U.S. (=)
  • MATH 240: Intro. to Discrete Mathematics
  • LEGAL ST 131 (4): Criminal Justice in America (^)

Fall 2022

  • LEGAL ST 261: American Legal History to 1860 (!)
  • CS 300: Programming II
  • ART HIST 105: Intro. Topics in Art History w/ Prof. Daniel Spaulding (=+)
  • MATH 234 (4): Multivariable Calculus

Footnotes

  1. While I usually encourage people only to take elective courses that interest them, the Operating Systems course at Madison is fantastic, and not taking it wastes a valuable opportunity. ↩