# SUSAN HORWITZ — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

### revision

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### repository

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### schema version

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### importer version

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### observed at

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### built at

2026-09-11T07:45:51.576183+00:00

### courses

8951

### current instructors

5754

### limited

false

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### term

1272

### departments

| subject   | count |
| --------- | ----- |
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| ABT       | 20    |
| ACCTIS    | 36    |
| ACTSCI    | 14    |
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| AMERIND   | 53    |
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| CHICLA    | 52    |
| CIVENGR   | 133   |
| CLASSICS  | 47    |
| CNP       | 10    |
| CNSRSCI   | 50    |
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| COMPBIO   | 15    |
| COMPLIT   | 11    |
| COMPSCI   | 138   |
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| EMERMED   | 17    |
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| GNS       | 38    |
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| HEBR-MOD  | 10    |
| HISTORY   | 233   |
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| HONCOL    | 13    |
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| INFOSYS   | 9     |
| INTEGART  | 7     |
| INTEGSCI  | 22    |
| INTER-AG  | 18    |
| INTER-HE  | 11    |
| INTER-LS  | 22    |
| INTEREGR  | 16    |
| INTLBUS   | 21    |
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| MARKETNG  | 62    |
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| MEDICINE  | 60    |
| MEDIEVAL  | 32    |
| MEDPHYS   | 39    |
| MEDSC-M   | 29    |
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| MILSCI    | 16    |
| MM\&I     | 22    |
| MOLBIOL   | 6     |
| MS\&E     | 59    |
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| MUSPERF   | 126   |
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| NEURODPT  | 11    |
| NEUROL    | 7     |
| NEURSURG  | 4     |
| NTP       | 11    |
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| NUTRSCI   | 65    |
| OBS\&GYN  | 18    |
| OCCTHER   | 39    |
| ONCOLOGY  | 14    |
| OPHTHALM  | 5     |
| OTM       | 43    |
| PATH      | 34    |
| PATH-BIO  | 29    |
| PEDIAT    | 26    |
| PHARMACY  | 31    |
| PHILOS    | 77    |
| PHMCOL-M  | 11    |
| PHMPRAC   | 45    |
| PHMSCI    | 60    |
| PHYASST   | 37    |
| PHYSICS   | 88    |
| PHYSIOL   | 3     |
| PHYTHER   | 37    |
| PLANTSCI  | 52    |
| PLPATH    | 35    |
| POLISCI   | 192   |
| POPHLTH   | 58    |
| PORTUG    | 33    |
| PSYCH     | 101   |
| PSYCHIAT  | 22    |
| PUBAFFR   | 54    |
| PUBLHLTH  | 23    |
| RADIOL    | 11    |
| REALEST   | 41    |
| RELIGST   | 90    |
| RHABMED   | 9     |
| RMI       | 24    |
| RP\&SE    | 102   |
| S\&APHM   | 17    |
| SCANDST   | 73    |
| SLAVIC    | 89    |
| SOC       | 149   |
| SOCWORK   | 87    |
| SOILSCI   | 46    |
| SPANISH   | 83    |
| SRMED     | 21    |
| STAT      | 94    |
| STDYABRD  | 52    |
| STS       | 8     |
| SURGERY   | 25    |
| SURGSCI   | 33    |
| THEATRE   | 91    |
| URBRPL    | 60    |
| UROLOGY   | 5     |
| ZOOLOGY   | 89    |

## instructor

### instructor uid

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### source

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### identity basis

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### identity status

unresolved

### name

SUSAN HORWITZ

### first observed at

2025-04-16 05:20:33.104844+00:00

### last observed at

2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00

### ratings

#### review count

4

#### quality

4.5

#### difficulty

2.25

#### quality count

4

#### difficulty count

4

#### profile id

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#### source url

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#### observed at

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#### courses

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###### review count

1

###### quality

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###### difficulty

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###### quality count

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###### difficulty count

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#### prior weight

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### current

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### courses

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### revision

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### instructor url

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## history

None recorded.

## timeline

None recorded.

## term

1272

## courses

None recorded.

## reviews

### items

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    "comment": "A great professor. Her notes are awesome lectures are clear and fun. She encourages group work and keeps the class entertaining. Exams are ok not too bad, curves are good but overall a great lecturer. Take her if u can",
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    "comment": "Excellent lecturer. Superb relevance and clarity in covered material, and even more impressive--she gets rooms full of stodgy male comp sci majors to get up and play with toys and make silly noises. Thoroughly enjoyable. Class requires a fair amount of work, but all is appropriate.",
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### page

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### courses

| course\_uid                      | course\_id  |
| -------------------------------- | ----------- |
| course\_aedae14eafabd35375a2f2de | COMPSCI 701 |

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