Fall 2026

Primate Psychology: Insights Into Human Behavior

Explores primate psychology and biology to provide insights into human behavior and cognition.

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Summary

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Historical reviews of Allyson Bennett, Christopher Coe, Julia Greenberg: Coe's exams were long multiple-choice tests focused on lecture notes, whereas Bennett and Greenberg require dense reading, graded discussion posts, and exams with unclear material coverage.

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Prerequisites

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PSYCH 202,ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY 101,ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 151, or (BIOCORE 381 and 382)

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Allyson Bennett, Julia Greenberg: Allyson Bennett and Julia Greenberg received negative reviews for slow, disorganized lectures and unclear exam content. Students found the dense material and harsh grading on discussion posts frustrating, with Greenberg’s primate focus described as boring by some.

ALLYSON BENNETT is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHRISTOPHER L COE 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, Spring 2019, Spring 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JULIA GREENBERG is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024. 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 Christopher Coe praise the course as fun and engaging with interesting primate content, while recent reviews for Allyson Bennett and Julia Greenberg describe lectures as boring, slow, and disorganized.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.55 GPA, 76.7% A/AB (n=266 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.17 GPA, 55.0% A/AB (n=129 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.35 GPA, 62.5% A/AB (n=112 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Allyson Bennett, Christopher Coe, Julia Greenberg: Coe's exams were long multiple-choice tests focused on lecture notes, whereas Bennett and Greenberg require dense reading, graded discussion posts, and exams with unclear material coverage.

Historical reviews of Allyson Bennett, Christopher Coe, Julia Greenberg: Coe was praised for being funny and helpful with questions, while Bennett and Greenberg were criticized for unclear exam expectations, disorganized slides, and harsh grading on assignments.

Topics

  • Development, learning, memory, brain evolution, spatial navigation, tool-use, social behavior, parental behavior, communication, self-recognition, theory of mind, ethics, and conservation.

Skills

  • Insights into human behavior and cognition through primate studies.
  • Investigation of development, learning, memory, brain evolution, and social behaviors across taxa.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2024— not enough history to project Fall 2026.

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About this comparison

1241 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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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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