Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.11 GPA, 47.3% A/AB (n=273 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.11 GPA, 49.7% A/AB (n=300 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.06 GPA, 47.2% A/AB (n=233 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
Animal Biology Laboratory
ANIMAL BIOLOGY LABORATORY introduces general animal biology concepts, evolutionary relationships, body plans, and diversity through dissection and ecological study.
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Historical reviews of Sarah Edlund: Reviewers note that the biology content can be overwhelming, but the instructor makes learning the lab material enjoyable and encourages students to ask questions.
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Prerequisites
Course mapNot open to students with credit forBOTANY/BIOLOGY/ZOOLOGY 151 or 152
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.16 GPA, 57.4% A/AB (n=61 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.21 GPA, 42.1% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.24 GPA, 52.2% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.46 GPA, 69.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical instructor Sarah Edlund was praised for being flexible, understanding, and caring, creating a welcoming environment. Reviewers noted she made lab material fun and enjoyable, encouraging students to ask questions despite the potentially overwhelming biology content.
GALE OAKES is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, 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.
JEREMY ABELS is recorded teaching in Fall 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MICHAEL MENON is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
SARAH EDLUND is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 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
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 18 / 24 | 1 |
| LAB 002 | Classroom Instruction | 19 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 003 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 004 | Classroom Instruction | 15 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 006 | Classroom Instruction | 15 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 008 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 009 | Classroom Instruction | 19 / 23 | 0 |
| LAB 010 | Classroom Instruction | 18 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 011 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 013 | Classroom Instruction | 14 / 24 | 1 |
| LAB 014 | Classroom Instruction | 14 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 005 | Classroom Instruction | 18 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 007 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 012 | Classroom Instruction | 17 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 6 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 002 | Classroom Instruction | 5 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 003 | Classroom Instruction | 3 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 004 | Classroom Instruction | 8 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 006 | Classroom Instruction | 9 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 008 | Classroom Instruction | 8 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 009 | Classroom Instruction | 4 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 010 | Classroom Instruction | 5 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 011 | Classroom Instruction | 7 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 013 | Classroom Instruction | 10 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 014 | Classroom Instruction | 9 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 005 | Classroom Instruction | 6 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 007 | Classroom Instruction | 6 / 24 | 0 |
| LAB 012 | Classroom Instruction | 4 / 24 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Sarah Edlund describe a flexible, caring instructor who makes lab material fun and creates a welcoming environment, though the biology content itself can be overwhelming.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.11 GPA, 47.3% A/AB (n=273 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.11 GPA, 49.7% A/AB (n=300 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.06 GPA, 47.2% A/AB (n=233 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Sarah Edlund: Reviewers note that the biology content can be overwhelming, but the instructor makes learning the lab material enjoyable and encourages students to ask questions.
Historical reviews of Sarah Edlund: Students report that Sarah Edlund is understanding and cares about learning, making the classroom welcoming and the experience positive enough that they would not regret taking her class.
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Grades
Fall 2026 · Projected
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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 · 0.09 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.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
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Catalog observation history
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Animal Biology Laboratory
Recorded 2026-09-07Animal Biology Laboratory
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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