# AMOS BITZAN — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

### revision

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### built at

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### courses

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### current instructors

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### departments

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| RADIOL    | 11    |
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| RHABMED   | 9     |
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| STS       | 8     |
| SURGERY   | 25    |
| SURGSCI   | 33    |
| THEATRE   | 91    |
| URBRPL    | 60    |
| UROLOGY   | 5     |
| ZOOLOGY   | 89    |

## instructor

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### source

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### identity status

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### name

AMOS BITZAN

### first observed at

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### last observed at

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### ratings

#### review count

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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#### quality count

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#### difficulty count

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#### profile id

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#### courses

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## history

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## timeline

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## term

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## courses

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## reviews

### items

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    "review_date": "2019-03-04 22:03:23 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "Prof. Bitzan was my favorite instructor of the semester. His passion and knowledge was truly inspiring. This course had a heavy reading load, but it was necessary to understand the material. Highly recommend taking a class with him if you get the chance. Also, the TA for this course, Chad Gibbs, was amazing as well.",
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    "comment": "You're graded mostly on papers and class participation, so come to class because you'll need the participation points and having the lecture notes makes writing the papers a breeze. It's a lot of reading though so stay on top of it. The papers are graded by a TA and as long as you do exactly as the outline says you'll get an A on them.",
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    "review_date": "2018-01-04 15:51:25 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "It's a 500 level history seminar, so it's obvs 80+ pages of reading a week. That being said, there were lots of non-majors in my class and they did fine. He really expects you to come to class having critically analyzed the reading so do that. He's a really great guy and offered a lot of insight into the subject. I really feel like I learned alot",
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    "review_date": "2016-11-15 12:32:11 +0000 UTC",
    "comment": "Fantastic seminar. Prof. Bitzan is a rising star and UW is lucky to have him",
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    "comment": "Very interesting small class on antisemitism, with a bright young professor. There is a huge amount of reading as is customary in these types of classes. This class will only get better as it's offered more often.",
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