Spring 2027

Animal Health and Disease

Animal Health and Disease explores how factors affect health and disease, focusing on the immune system's role and infectious disease in animals.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lautaro Rostoll Cangiano

Summary

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Past student reviews · Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam

One student described exams as extremely difficult, requiring memorization of all slide content and weekly discussion posts for extra credit. They also noted the instructor checked attendance unexpectedly without a syllabus.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the interconnectivity and interdependence between factors that influence health and disease

  • Discuss fundamental biological and scientific concepts valuable for a career in animal agriculture, veterinary medicine, human medicine or biomedical animal research

  • Translate novel knowledge of health and disease in one species to another

  • Integrate concepts covered in the course and explore in depth how they are relevant to a specific challenge currently faced in animal health or disease.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 151, (ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY 101 and 102),BIOCORE 383, or graduate/professional standing

ANSCI/DYSCI 320

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 74.4% A/AB (n=121 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AMIN FADL is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DHANANSAYAN SHANMUGANAYAGAM is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LAUTARO ROSTOLL CANGIANO is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1200
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1200

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Amin Fadl

Past students found the course manageable with straightforward multiple-choice tests and a single group presentation. However, they noted that the historical instructor's speaking style and dense slides made self-study essential.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.57 GPA, 74.4% A/AB (n=90 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 74.4% A/AB (n=121 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam

One student described exams as extremely difficult, requiring memorization of all slide content and weekly discussion posts for extra credit. They also noted the instructor checked attendance unexpectedly without a syllabus.

Past student reviews · Amin Fadl

A reviewer found the lectures dry and the slides visually cluttered with too much information per slide. They noted that while the class was not bad, it essentially required teaching oneself.

Topics

  • Infectious disease in animals and the immune system.
  • Causes and identification of animal and farm animal diseases.
  • Zoonoses, public health, disease prevention, and biosecurity.
  • Translating knowledge between human and animal health.

Skills

  • Describe interconnectivity between factors influencing health and disease and the role of the immune system.
  • Identify animal diseases, discuss zoonoses, and apply disease prevention and biosecurity measures.
  • Translate health and disease knowledge between species, including human and animal contexts.

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

Before grades are released

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Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

4 earlier forecasts · 0.21 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

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letter grades

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Typical course in this group: letter grades.

About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ANSCI/DYSCI 320 · Spring 2027

Animal Health and Disease

Recorded 2026-10-14
ANSCI/DYSCI 320 · Spring 2027

Animal Health and Disease

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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