Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.41 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.60 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Genetics Laboratory
Genetics Laboratory provides practical experience in classical and molecular genetic techniques using plants, animals, and fungi, covering topics from gene mapping to PCR and Southern blotting.
offering recorded2 credits
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.41 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Understand central concepts in genetics.
Use concepts to solve problems.
Interpret data from experiments.
Apply genetics knowledge to problems.
Communicate effectively both written and orally.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
658658 letter grades
A60.8%60.8%
AB13.7%13.7%
B18.4%18.4%
BC3.8%3.8%
C2.1%2.1%
D0.3%0.3%
F0.9%0.9%
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Prerequisites
Course mapGENETICS 466 or 467
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Professors
Spring 2027CL
Carin Loewen
About this rating
Raw average: 2.27/5 from 26 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.
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.77 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.71 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
CARIN LOEWEN is recorded teaching in 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.
CHRISTOPHER TILMANN is recorded teaching in Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 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.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 12 | 0 |
| LAB 002 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 12 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.41 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
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Topics
- Complementation and linkage analysis, gene mapping, library screening, yeast and bacterial transformation, restriction analysis, PCR, sequencing, and Southern blot analysis
- Organisms: plants, animals, and fungi
Skills
- Classical and molecular genetic laboratory techniques
- Complementation and linkage analysis, gene mapping, library screening, yeast and bacterial transformation, restriction analysis, PCR, sequencing, and Southern blot analysis
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
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Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A95.2%95.2%
AB0.0%0.0%
B0.0%0.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F4.8%4.8%
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Through Spring 2026
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Genetics Laboratory
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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