Biological Sciences Course Guide
The Biological Sciences Course Guide provides detailed information for students, faculty, advisors, staff and visitors about course offerings in the biological sciences at the UW-Madison. You can search for courses by department, course number or level, keyword, instructor and more, or just browse courses. The Course Guide is intended to include informal information from the instructor to supplement the catalog description. Course Guide information is not the official, legal description.
To use the Course Guide, sign on to MyUW, go to the Academic tab, click on “More” and add the Biological Sciences Course Guide module. If you are a guest, you may access the Biological Student Course Guide at http://courseguide.wisc.edu.
Instructors: Add the “Biological Sciences Course Guide (Author)” module and the “Biological Sciences Course Guide (Search/Browse).”
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L&S students please note: Courses outside of L&S with neither a "C" nor a "T" in the eBLC column of the timetable do not count for credit toward an L&S degree. This list is not complete -- please let us know if there is a course that should be included.
History: The original course guide, Biology Course Info, was developed in 1995 by the Center for Biology Education, with leadership from the Undergraduate Biology Education Committee and funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1999 the Curriculum Planning Committee of the Biological Sciences Division endorsed the concept and took leadership in promoting it officially. In 2004, the Division of Information Technology created the current Course Guide as a pilot for a campus-wide source of informal information about courses. Biological Sciences has been a leader in the development of the Course Guide because of the cross-college nature of the biological sciences at UW-Madison and the necessity for communication with and among students, faculty/staff, advisors, and administration about courses and the way they are taught at the undergraduate and graduate level.