Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Grade sorting prioritizes courses with at least 100 letter grades.
General Botany introduces basic plant biology principles, focusing on evolutionary sequences and structure-function relationships across organizational levels.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of David Baum, Linda Graham: One review suggests the workload is light if you attend lectures, while another indicates quizzes are difficult despite reading the textbook.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026Introductory Biology covers plant physiology, organismal kingdoms, evolution, and ecology.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The botany portion requires plenty of memorization. Lectures are dense in content but explained clearly and slowly, with pauses for questions.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026BOTANY 299 is a directed study course that introduces students to research questions and provides mentorship in a botany research environment.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 499 is an intermediate directed research course where students explore botany research questions under faculty mentorship.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 681 is a senior honors thesis course involving individual research arranged with a faculty member for Botany majors.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
BOTANY 682 is a senior honors thesis course involving individual research arranged with a faculty member for Botany majors.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 691 is a senior thesis course focused on individual research conducted under faculty supervision.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
BOTANY 692 is a senior thesis course involving individual research arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 698 is a directed study course for advanced research projects arranged with a faculty member.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
BOTANY 699 is a directed study course where students explore botany research questions under faculty mentorship.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleA graduate seminar covering topics and recent advances in the literature of Plant Ecology.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2025 · limited sampleBOTANY 995 is an independent research course in the area of Plant Ecology.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
BOTANY 996 is an independent research course in plant physiology.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
General Ecology covers the ecology of organisms through biosphere levels, studying interactions in field and lab settings.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Thomas Givnish: Reviewers report high difficulty, citing exams based on memorizing old research papers and homework that leads to failure without TA help. The teaching style is described as rushing through topics with wordy definitions.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026