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Spring 2027
Recorded this term
4040courses with offerings
4545instructors recorded
Grades have not been recorded for this term. Historical results remain
in the overview above.
Ethnobotany course exploring interactions between human cultures and plants, covering topics like traditional resource management, crop domestication, archaeobotany, indigenous knowledge, and phytochemistry.
The course was rated as extremely difficult, with students reporting that grading was opaque and weekly assignment feedback was never released, leaving them unaware of errors.
Evolutionary biology course emphasizing how modern scientists study evolution, covering microevolution, macroevolution, systematics, quantitative genetics, and phylogenetic analyses.
Assessment consisted of ten-point weekly quizzes based on lectures and readings, which one student found manageable enough to earn an A without reading the book.
General Botany introduces plant biology principles, focusing on evolutionary sequences and structure-function relationships from molecules to communities, with lectures, labs, and discussions.
The course was moderately difficult and memorization-heavy on exams, which some students found tricky. Labs required outside class hours, but TAs were helpful in guiding students through completing lab reports.
Survey of Botany explores the roles of plants and microbes in global ecology and their historical and current uses by humans, including biotechnology applications.
Survey of plant diversity and evolutionary history, emphasizing structure and reproduction in bryophytes, lycopods, ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants, plus fossil lineages.
Explores molecular and ecological aspects of plant-microbe interactions, covering themes from genetic to integrative modern biology to understand fundamental plant science.
Examines how arthropods exploit plants, plant defense traits, environmental mediation, population dynamics, community ecology, co-evolution, and implications for natural resource management and sustainable development.
Conservation Biology explores the science of protecting nature and preserving biodiversity, examining biological and socioeconomic factors underlying conservation challenges and impacts from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Introductory ecology covering organism-environment relationships, population dynamics, community organization, human-environment interactions, and action programs.
Anthony Ives used quizzes worth 20 points each, with a 60-point final. A student warned that even a couple of wrong answers lowered scores, but extra credit could raise a grade.