Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.34 GPA, 54.5% A/AB (n=941 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=991 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.52 GPA, 66.1% A/AB (n=1152 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Introductory Biology
Introductory Biology covers plant physiology, the five major kingdoms, speciation, evolutionary theory, and ecology across biological scales.
Summary
Past student reviews · Kate McCulloh
The course demanded plenty of memorization for the botany portion, while lectures were noted to be dense in content.
What you’ll be able to do
Explain the key mechanisms underlying biological evolution and identify those that drive diverse adaptations and key transitions in the history of life on Earth.
Relate cellular, tissue, and organ structures and processes to their physiological functions in the plant life cycle to explain how plants acquire and use energy and material resources and respond to environmental stimuli.
Describe the structure and function of ecological systems at different spatial and temporal scales and how abiotic and biotic factors affect the distribution of species.
Assess how humans impact biological systems through habitat fragmentation and loss, climate change, overexploitation, invasive species, and pollution.
Apply vocabulary, concepts, and theories of plant physiology, evolution, and ecology to problems across the biological sciences.
Identify and investigate scientific problems by interpreting the results of prior research, developing hypotheses, designing and conducting experiments, analyzing data,and planning future experiments.
Demonstrate skills necessary for biological research, including effective teamwork, data collection methods, and scientific communication.
Integrate concepts and content from biology and other scientific disciplines to explore current global and societal issues.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2· UW Guide 3
Grade history
↗All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors
Prerequisites
Course mapZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151
“Used by” includes alternatives; linked courses may have other requirements. This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.
Prerequisite text tree
Professors
Spring 2027David Baum
About this rating
Raw average: 4.43/5 from 87 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.34 GPA, 54.5% A/AB (n=941 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=991 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.52 GPA, 66.1% A/AB (n=1152 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
About this rating
Raw average: 3.61/5 from 38 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.14 GPA, 41.4% A/AB (n=868 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.34 GPA, 54.5% A/AB (n=941 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=991 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
ANTONY STRETTON is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
DAVID ABBOTT is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
DAVID BAUM is recorded teaching in Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JONATHAN PAULI is recorded teaching in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
SIMON GILROY is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, 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
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
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Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Meeting source records
Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Kate McCulloh
Students described lectures as dense but clearly explained with frequent pauses for questions. The botany section required significant memorization of material.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 57.9% A/AB (n=991 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.36 GPA, 54.8% A/AB (n=606 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.52 GPA, 66.1% A/AB (n=1152 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Kate McCulloh
The course demanded plenty of memorization for the botany portion, while lectures were noted to be dense in content.
Past student reviews · Kate McCulloh
Reviewers appreciated the instructor's clear, slow explanations and occasional jokes, which helped make the dense material accessible.
Topics
- Plant physiology
- Five major kingdoms of organisms
- Speciation and evolutionary theory
- Ecology at multiple levels
- Plant structures, functions, and resource acquisition
- Ecological systems and species distribution
Skills
- Understand selected topics in plant physiology
- Survey the five major kingdoms of organisms
- Analyze speciation and evolutionary theory
- Study ecology at multiple levels of the biological hierarchy
- Explain mechanisms of biological evolution and adaptation
- Assess human impacts on biological systems
- Investigate scientific problems and design experiments
Grades
Spring 2027 · Projected
Before grades are releasedApproximate 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.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.15 GPA average error.
Grades over time
Through Spring 2027
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Where this course fits relative to
Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels
Higher than
Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range
More recorded grades than
Typical course in this group:
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
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.
Selected offering source records
Introductory Biology
Recorded 2026-10-14Introductory Biology
Recorded 2026-10-14Introductory Biology
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.
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Grade history
Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.
Explore recorded gradesRecorded 2026-10-14
Model outputs & technical records
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.
Model & dataset provenance
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