# STEVEN WINSPUR — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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| UROLOGY   | 5     |
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## instructor

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### name

STEVEN WINSPUR

### 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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## history

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## term

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## courses

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## reviews

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    "comment": "Winspur has been my favorite French teacher at UW-Madison by far.  He's a very interesting lecturer and outlines for papers and exams are very clear.  I really enjoyed the lit he had us read.  Not the lightest workload, but the class is set up so that if you get behind in reading it's pretty easy to catch back up again. + he's extremely nice!",
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