Top 10 courses of Summer Term 2025
Badgers, you’ve been busy this summer digging into challenging courses, collecting credits to get ahead and balancing school with work, travel, family and friends.
You took courses online, in person and even across the globe in subjects ranging from accounting to zoology. You got credit for lab work, attending lectures, juggling internships and many other learning experiences.
If you’re wondering what courses had the highest enrollment this summer, you’ve come to the right place. Here are the top 10 courses for undergraduate students during Summer Term 2025:
10) PHYSICS 103: General Physics
4 credits
This introduction to physics at the noncalculus level provides students with principles of mechanics, heat and waves, with applications to various fields.
9) ECON 101: Principles of Microeconomics
4 credits
This course explores problems of individuals, firms and industries with emphasis on value, price and distribution of income.
8) COM ARTS 313: Topics in Film and Media Studies
3 credits
This higher-level course explores various topics in film and media studies, history and theory.
7) ENGL 178: Digital Media, Literature, and Culture
3 credits
This introduction to the intersection of digital technologies and literature asks students to examine the role of digital media in structuring the knowledge and experience of literary works.
6) STAT 324: Introductory Applied Statistics for Engineers
3 credits
This course teaches descriptive statistics, probability concepts and distributions, and random variables as well as hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for one- and two-sample problems and linear regression, model checking and inference.
5) STAT 371: Introductory Applied Statistics for the Life Sciences
3 credits
This introduction to statistical practice in the life sciences uses the R programming language in topics from exploratory data analysis, probability and random variables to biological applications.
4) STAT 301: Introduction to Statistical Methods
3 credits
This course explores a spectrum of statistical methods from distributions, measures of central tendency, dispersion and shape to basic ideas of experimental design.
3) BIOCHEM 501: Introduction to Biochemistry
3 credits
This advanced course teaches chemistry, nutrition and metabolism of biological systems.
2) CNSR SCI 603: Retailing Internship
1-6 credits
This course is a supervised internship that provides hands-on training in a professional setting within the retail field.
And without further ado, the #1 course this summer, with 267 students enrolled, is:
1) INTEREGR 397: Engineering Communication
3 credits
This course equips students with essential communication skills for engineering, science and technology, focusing on planning, preparing and critiquing professional documents and presentations. Students gain effective communication in multidisciplinary settings.
Congrats, Badgers, for working hard this summer to stay on track with your academic and career goals. We hope you also found time to relax and enjoy sunshine, fresh air and memorable moments.
Share your Summer Term story with #MyBadgerSummer on Instagram, and show us what you’ve been up to before summer comes to an end. But, no worries, we’ll see you for Summer Term 2026!
Published on Aug 04 2025
Categories: News, Summer Term
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