Spring 2027

Parasitology

Parasitology covering the biology, transmission, diagnosis, and treatment of water-, food-, soil-, and vector-borne parasites in animals and humans, including epidemiological drivers.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Lyric Bartholomay

One student found exams tough and borderline unfair, while another noted midterms were online and the final had no practice problems. Students emphasized that everything mentioned in class was fair game, requiring careful attention to lecture details.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Be conversant in terminology used in the field of Parasitology.

  • Recall scientific and common names for parasites and hosts, and the name of the resulting disease in humans or animals.

  • Attribute parasite behavior and characteristics to specific disease features in the host.

  • Identify appropriate means to diagnose infections with parasites.

  • Describe and identify factors that determine when, where, and why parasitic diseases exist.

  • Integrate terminology, scientific nomenclature, diagnostic features and demographics to solve case studies where the parasitic culprit is unknown.

  • Compare and contrast commonalities in parasite life cycles to demonstrate how flexibility in those life cycles has resulted in many different potential means of transmission.

  • Deconstruct the impact of parasitic diseases on human and animal health, from disease symptoms and pathology in an individual, to socioeconomics in communities and countries.

  • Identify reliable resources (primarily internet-based) available for researching the biology and epidemiology parasitic diseases.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3 UW Guide 4

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Prerequisites

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ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY 101 and 102, or ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 152 or ZOOLOGY 153, or BIOCORE 381

ENTOM/MM&I/PATH-BIO/ZOOLOGY 350

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BRUCE CHRISTENSEN 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.

LYRIC BARTHOLOMAY is recorded teaching in 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.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Lyric Bartholomay

Past students described the professor as interesting and funny, noting the course required very little outside reading or assignments. The primary workload involved attending lectures and taking notes to learn the material.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.49 GPA, 65.2% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 83.5% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.44 GPA, 65.9% A/AB (n=85 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Lyric Bartholomay

One student found exams tough and borderline unfair, while another noted midterms were online and the final had no practice problems. Students emphasized that everything mentioned in class was fair game, requiring careful attention to lecture details.

Past student reviews · Lyric Bartholomay

A student found the professor super nice and the class very interesting. However, they noted the final exam included random tidbit questions without practice problems, so paying attention to every detail mentioned in class was essential.

Topics

  • Biology of water-borne, food-borne, soil-borne, and vector-borne parasites.
  • Transmission, associated diseases, diagnosis, and treatment options.
  • Environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic drivers of disease epidemiology.

Skills

  • Mastery of parasitology terminology and nomenclature for parasites, hosts, and associated diseases.
  • Identification of diagnostic methods for parasitic infections.
  • Analysis of environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors influencing disease epidemiology.
  • Application of integrated knowledge to solve unknown parasite case studies.

Grades

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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 · 0.24 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

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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

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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