Fall 2026

Survey of Botany

Survey of Botany covers the ecological roles of plants and microbes and their historical and modern uses by humans.

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Summary

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Historical reviews of Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, Linda Graham: Workload varies from manageable with heavy extra credit to overwhelming. Some terms require over 50 pages of weekly reading and long lectures, while others feature dense textbooks and quizzes that do not always align with lecture content.

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Prerequisites

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BOTANY 100 used by

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Linda Graham: Linda Graham’s course history shows polarized experiences. Some students found her nice and the class an easy lab credit with significant extra credit opportunities. Others reported boring lectures, excessive reading, and frustrating quizzes that made the course difficult despite the extra credit.

INGRID JORDON-THADEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LINDA GRAHAM is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews of Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, Linda Graham: Reviews describe a polarizing course with significant variation in quality and workload depending on the instructor. Students report either easy extra-credit opportunities or frustrating, dense reading requirements with misaligned assessments.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 75.6% A/AB (n=135 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.48 GPA, 72.3% A/AB (n=141 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.07 GPA, 43.6% A/AB (n=110 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, Linda Graham: Workload varies from manageable with heavy extra credit to overwhelming. Some terms require over 50 pages of weekly reading and long lectures, while others feature dense textbooks and quizzes that do not always align with lecture content.

Historical reviews of Ingrid Jordon-Thaden, Linda Graham: Experiences range from highly positive, with instructors described as nice and considerate, to extremely negative, citing boring or disorganized lectures and frustrating grading structures. Some students find the course easy with extra credit, while others feel sabotaged by quiz content.

Topics

  • Global ecology
  • Human uses of plants and microbes
  • Biotechnology applications

Skills

  • Understanding ecological roles of plants and microbes
  • Analyzing human uses of plants and microbes
  • Exploring biotechnology applications

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.

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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.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "1471541439ec95e0341f67a620b855037a77f910b38a2f85c85e96653e13473b",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00"
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