Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.74 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.80 GPA, 93.5% A/AB (n=93 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.78 GPA, 93.6% A/AB (n=78 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
Biochemical Methods
BIOCHEMICAL METHODS introduces modern biochemical laboratory techniques and current literature through lab experiments and student seminars.
Summary
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Historical reviews of Lynne Prost: Reviewers report that lectures move too fast to take notes and lab grading criteria are unclear. The lab work is described as tedious and repetitive for those with prior experience, while exams are considered easy.
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Prerequisites
Course mapBIOCHEM 501, 507, or concurrent enrollment
- BIOCHEM 501 · prior_or_concurrent
- BIOCHEM 507 · prior_or_concurrent
- concurrent enrollment
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Prerequisite text tree
- Any of
- BIOCHEM 501 · prior_or_concurrent
- BIOCHEM 507 · prior_or_concurrent
- concurrent enrollment
Professors
Fall 2026Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.78 GPA, 93.6% A/AB (n=78 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 96.6% A/AB (n=117 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
No reviews exist for current instructors Alessandro Senes or Erica Shu. Historical reviews for Lynne Prost describe conflicting experiences, ranging from supportive and helpful to critical of lecture pacing and lab clarity.
ALESSANDRO SENES is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
ERICA SHU is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
LYNNE PROST is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020. 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
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| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 95 / 96 | 1 |
| LAB 301 | Classroom Instruction | 23 / 22 | 1 |
| LAB 302 | Classroom Instruction | 24 / 22 | 0 |
| LAB 303 | Classroom Instruction | 24 / 22 | 0 |
| LAB 304 | Classroom Instruction | 24 / 22 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Lynne Prost describe the course as having easy lectures and exams, though the lab is considered tedious. Students found the instruction helpful and supportive, with one reviewer noting shallow biochemistry underpinning.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.78 GPA, 93.6% A/AB (n=78 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 96.6% A/AB (n=117 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Lynne Prost: Reviewers report that lectures move too fast to take notes and lab grading criteria are unclear. The lab work is described as tedious and repetitive for those with prior experience, while exams are considered easy.
Historical reviews of Lynne Prost: Students appreciated Prost's willingness to help one-on-one and provide resources for struggling learners. However, one reviewer criticized the lab techniques and unclear grading, while another noted her lax grading for presentations.
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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.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.
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About this comparison
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.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
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Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
Biochemical Methods
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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Model & dataset provenance
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