Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.19 GPA, 56.4% A/AB (n=110 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.00 GPA, 44.1% A/AB (n=118 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.39 GPA, 67.7% A/AB (n=99 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
General Biochemistry I
Covers the chemistry of biological materials, intermediary metabolism, and protein structure.
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Historical reviews of Aaron Hoskins, Michael Cox, Timothy Grant: Students must read the textbook to succeed, as lectures alone are insufficient. Exams cover vast amounts of information, including small details, and can be challenging with easy point loss despite preparation.
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Prerequisites
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Fall 2026Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.00 GPA, 44.1% A/AB (n=118 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.39 GPA, 67.7% A/AB (n=99 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Michael Cox: Michael Cox is described as helpful and thorough, with useful office hours and recorded lectures. Reviewers note his exams cover extensive information and require textbook reading, though he recycles questions from practice sets. Some find his pace fast and slides rushed.
AARON HOSKINS is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
AMY WEEKS is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MICHAEL COX is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MONICA NEUGEBAUER is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
TIMOTHY GRANT is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, 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
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 113 / 182 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
BIOCHEM 507 is a rigorous course with extensive material that demands significant outside study and textbook reading. Historical reviews highlight varied instructor experiences, ranging from highly recommended clear teaching to frustrating confusion and exhaustion.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.21 GPA, 57.1% A/AB (n=56 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.39 GPA, 67.7% A/AB (n=99 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.42 GPA, 68.4% A/AB (n=38 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Aaron Hoskins, Michael Cox, Timothy Grant: Students must read the textbook to succeed, as lectures alone are insufficient. Exams cover vast amounts of information, including small details, and can be challenging with easy point loss despite preparation.
Historical reviews of Aaron Hoskins, Michael Cox, Timothy Grant: Useful resources include practice exams, study guides, and recorded lectures. However, some students found lectures confusing or instructors exhausted, with one reviewer noting an instructor admitted to not knowing how to solve a problem.
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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.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.12 GPA average error.
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1283 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.
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UW–Madison
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General Biochemistry I
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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