Spring 2027

Pathophysiologic Principles of Human Diseases

Provides a basic understanding of the causes, pathophysiology, pathology and clinical manifestations of disease states from a medical perspective.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jamie KallanJosephine Harter

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Agnes Loeffler

The course required consistent studying and memorization from the start because four exams determined the final grade.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the pathophysiologic processes highlighted in the course.

  • Explain how clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and prognosis of some common conditions are related to underlying pathophysiologic principles.

  • Describe how treatments of some common conditions are based on these same pathophysiologic principles.

  • Consider how severe consequences of diseases may be prevented by screening, early diagnosis, modification of risk factors, and mitigation of environmental/occupational exposures.

  • Establish a vocabulary of medical terms used by healthcare professionals

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY 101,ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 151,ZOOLOGY 153, or BIOCORE 381

PATH 404 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 99.2% A/AB (n=133 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 99.4% A/AB (n=175 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 99.2% A/AB (n=133 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 99.4% A/AB (n=175 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AGNES LOEFFLER is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JAMIE KALLAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JOSEPHINE HARTER is recorded teaching in 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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LEC 001Online Only0 / 1800

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Agnes Loeffler

A past student described the lectures as very well organized and presented.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 99.2% A/AB (n=133 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 99.4% A/AB (n=175 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Agnes Loeffler

The course required consistent studying and memorization from the start because four exams determined the final grade.

Past student reviews · Agnes Loeffler

One student noted that the amount of material was manageable and that high grades were achievable with dedicated effort.

Topics

  • Causes, pathophysiology, pathology, and clinical manifestations of disease states.
  • Diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical manifestations of common conditions.
  • Prevention via screening, early diagnosis, risk factor modification, and exposure mitigation.
  • Medical terminology used by healthcare professionals.

Skills

  • Describing pathophysiologic processes and explaining relationships between clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prognosis, and underlying principles.
  • Describing treatment bases and considering prevention strategies including screening, early diagnosis, and risk factor modification.
  • Establishing a vocabulary of medical terms used by healthcare professionals.

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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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 · 0.30 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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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

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
PATH 404 · Spring 2027

Pathophysiologic Principles of Human Diseases

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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