Fall 2026

Diversity, Ecology and Evolution of Microorganisms

Covers fundamental concepts of microbial phylogenetic diversity, ecology, and evolution using active learning methods.

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Summary

1 / 5

Historical reviews of Charlie Mo: The course requires significant memorization of content and random concepts, with minimal assignments beyond review quizzes and dense lectures.

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Prerequisites

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MICROBIO 303 or graduate/professional standing

MICROBIO 450

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Charlie Mo: Charlie Mo is described as a nice and understanding instructor who explains content slowly and clearly, though some find his lectures dense or uninspiring. Reviewers note he is fair but can struggle with difficult concepts, and students can often learn material from slides alone.

CHARLIE MO is recorded teaching in 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

Fall 2026

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews for Charlie Mo describe a memorization-heavy course with straightforward exams, though lecture quality and exam formats vary in student perception.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.61 GPA, 81.0% A/AB (n=42 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=60 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.34 GPA, 60.7% A/AB (n=61 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Charlie Mo: The course requires significant memorization of content and random concepts, with minimal assignments beyond review quizzes and dense lectures.

Historical reviews of Charlie Mo: Students find Dr. Mo nice and fair, but some note his lectures are not inspirational and exam formats may differ from his descriptions.

Topics

  • Phylogenetic diversity of microbes
  • Ecology and evolution of microbes

Skills

  • Applying concepts through active learning methods to deepen understanding of microbiology.

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 6 recent 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.

6 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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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.

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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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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