What Is Life? Biological Life in Literature and Culture
Explores representations of biological life in literature, science, film, and art, fostering interdisciplinary thinking.
Summary
Historical reviews of Jan Miernowski: Students must read and understand substantial material to succeed on quizzes and essays. The workload is not trivial, though some find the professor makes the work engaging.
Grade history
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Prerequisites
Course mapSophomore standing
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- Sophomore standing
Professors
Fall 2026No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Jan Miernowski: Jan Miernowski is praised as enthusiastic, caring, and generous, with lighthearted cold-calling and constructive feedback. Conversely, one reviewer criticizes his fast speaking, shaming behavior, unclear grading, and expectations for outside meetings.
JAN MIERNOWSKI is recorded teaching in Spring 2022. 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
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews of Jan Miernowski: Jan Miernowski is described as enthusiastic and caring, with students finding the class fun and interesting. One reviewer, however, reports a negative experience, citing unclear grading and poor teaching quality.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.76 GPA, 89.7% A/AB (n=97 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Jan Miernowski: Students must read and understand substantial material to succeed on quizzes and essays. The workload is not trivial, though some find the professor makes the work engaging.
Historical reviews of Jan Miernowski: Miernowski attempts to learn student names and uses daily cold-calling, which is generally described as lighthearted or in good fun. He provides constructive criticism, though one student reports a negative experience with unclear grading.
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Grades
Latest available · Spring 2022— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
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About this comparison
1171 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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LLM outputs across runs
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Model & dataset provenance
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