Current instructor

Reba Luiken

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Raw average: 1.50/5 from 2 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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What students say

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HORT301 · course not matched
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
Reba does not teach; she admitted multiple times that she didn't even want to be a teacher. She will grade you harshly. DO NOT take this for a comm b, this is the worst class and teacher I have ever had. I spent more time on this than on Chemistry, about 30 hours a week. Complete waste of time, and she purposely ruined my 4.0.
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HORT301 · course not matched
Quality 2/5Difficulty 1/5
Lectures DRAG. Two hours is two hours too long for this class. Very unstructured discussions where students lead, except we all agree on everything we say so there's no progress. Teaches us like we're in elementary school, practicing citations and peer review every assignment. Rubrics are unspecific so you never know what ur doing for assignments
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Classes with Reba Luiken

INTER-AG 117

Greenhouse Roots Seminar

1 credits

Greenhouse Roots Seminar challenges residents to reflect on sustainability, community, and lifestyle impacts while supporting the transition to college at UW-Madison.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.75 GPA, 85.0% A/AB (n=60 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Reba LuikenAndrew Stevens

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027INTER-AG 117Greenhouse Roots Seminar
Fall 2026AGROECOL/ILS/RELIGST 304Plants and Religion
Fall 2026INTER-AG 117Greenhouse Roots Seminar
Fall 2026PLANTSCI 399Coordinative Internship/cooperative Education
Fall 2026PLANTSCI 699Special Problems

Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.

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