Fall 2026

Diseases of Wildlife

Overview of wildlife diseases and their management within the one health framework.

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Summary

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Historical reviews of Kurt Sladky: The course relies entirely on three exams, creating high pressure to perform well on each. Students report needing to study significant details, though weekly summaries provided by the instructor help focus preparation on key exam content.

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Prerequisites

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BOTANY/​BIOLOGY 130, (ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY 101 and 102),ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 151,BIOCORE 381, or graduate/professional standing

F&WECOL/SURGSCI 548

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Kurt Sladky: Kurt Sladky organized the course with guest lecturers, providing straightforward lectures and helpful study summaries. Reviewers praised his supportive nature and the interesting content, though one noted the guest lectures varied in quality.

KURT SLADKY is recorded teaching in Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. 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 Kurt Sladky: Reviewers describe Kurt Sladky's course as highly engaging and well-organized, featuring clear lectures and helpful study materials. Students appreciate the interesting content and the instructor's support for student success.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 2.99 GPA, 39.3% A/AB (n=56 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.28 GPA, 63.0% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.29 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=63 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Kurt Sladky: The course relies entirely on three exams, creating high pressure to perform well on each. Students report needing to study significant details, though weekly summaries provided by the instructor help focus preparation on key exam content.

Historical reviews of Kurt Sladky: Students appreciate the posted slides, recordings, and lecture summaries as essential study tools. The experience varies due to the quality of guest lecturers, with some found amazing and others poorly presented, though exams generally focus on well-delivered content.

Topics

  • Biological, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of wildlife diseases.
  • Diverse pathogens including bacteria, viruses, parasites, prions, and contaminants.
  • Environmental changes and their effect on disease manifestation.

Skills

  • Interdisciplinary disease management across animal, human, and ecological health.
  • Analysis of environmental impacts on disease manifestation.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 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 · 0.18 GPA average error.

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About this comparison

1320 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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