# Ellen Damschen — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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| SURGERY   | 25    |
| SURGSCI   | 33    |
| THEATRE   | 91    |
| URBRPL    | 60    |
| UROLOGY   | 5     |
| ZOOLOGY   | 89    |

## instructor

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### name

Ellen Damschen

### email

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### last observed at

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### ratings

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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#### difficulty count

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## term

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## courses

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## reviews

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    "comment": "Nice and fun professor who likes to incorporate activities, even in large lecture halls. She is pretty chill, and the Ecology unit itself is not too difficult, so mostly just read through the slides to prepare.",
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    "comment": "I really don't understand, she used terminology that we had not learned. The other professors were better.",
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    "comment": "Very unorganized. Lectures are very boring and are not worth going to. She seems to have a hard time teaching very easy content. Other 2 professors were MUCH better.  ",
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