Botany courses

For the most current information on classes, including credits, when the course was last taught and who is the current instructor, please view the list of Botany courses on the Course Search and Enroll website.

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*Note that graduate courses numbered 700 or above restrict enrollment to students who have graduate standing, or who have received the instructor’s consent to enroll.

100 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
100	Survey of Botany		3
123	Plants, Parasites, and People	Plant Path	3
130	General Botany	Biology	5
151	Introductory Biology	Zoology, Biology	5
152	Introductory Biology	Zoology, Biology	5
160	Heredity	Genetics, Zoology	3

200 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
240	Plants and Humans		3
260	Introductory Ecology	Zoology, Environmental Studies	3
299	Directed Study in Botany		1-3

300 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
300	Plant Anatomy		4
305	Plant Morphology and Evolution		4
330	Algae		3
332	Fungi	Plant Pathology	4
333	Biology of the Fungi	Plant Pathology	2
338	Environmental Biogeography	Geog	3
339	Plant Biotechnology: Principles and Techniques I	Agronomy, Horitculture	4
370	Grassland Ecology	Agronomy, Soil Sciences	3

400 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
400	Plant Systematics		4
401	Vascular Flora of Wisconsin		4
402	Dendrology	F&W Ecol	2
403	Field Collections and Identification		1-4
410	Evolutionary Biology	Anthro, Zoology	3
422	Plant Geography		3
455	The Vegetation of Wisconsin	F&W Ecol	4
460	General Ecology	F&W Ecol, Zoology	4
473	Plant-Insect Interactions	Entomology, Zoology	3
474	Ethnobotany	Anthro, Amer Ind (Ethnic Studies “e” designation)	3-4

500 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
500	Plant Physiology		3-4
505	Plant-Microbe Interactions: Molecular and Ecological Aspects	Entom, Plant Path	3
555	Plant Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics	Agronomy, Hort	2-3
561	Introductory Cytogenetics	Genetics, Hort	2-3
563	Phylogenetic Analysis of Molecular Data		3
575	Special Topics		1-3

600 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
621	Plant Biochemistry	Biochem	3
626	Mineral Nutrition of Plants	Horticulture, Soil Sci	3
629	Evolutionary Genetics	Genetics, MD Genet	3
639	Capstone Course in Field Biology I	Zoology	1
640	Capstone Course in Field Biology II	Zoology	3
645	Modeling in Population Genetics and Evolution	Genetics, Zoology	3
651	Conservation Biology	Envir St, F&W Ecol, Zoology	3
655	Biology and Genetics of Filamentous Fungi	Genetics, MM&I, Microbio, Plant Path	3-4
670	Adaptive Restoration Lab	Land Arc	2
672	Historical Ecology	F&W Ecol, Zoology	2
681/682	Senior Honors Thesis		3
691/692	Senior Thesis		2-3
698/699	Directed Study		1-4

700 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
725	Ecosystem Concepts	Zoology	3

800 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
801	Advanced Plant Community Ecology		4
802	Physiological Plant Ecology		3
820	Foundations in Evolution	Entomology, Genetics, Zoology	2
840	Regulatory Mechanisms in Plant Development	Biochem, Genetics	3
858	Special Topics in Plant Physiology		1-3
860	Plant Cell Biology		2
879	Advanced Landscape Ecology	F&W Ecol, Zoology	3

900 level courses
#	course title (website )	cross-listed with	credits
911	Limnology and Marine Science Seminar	Atm Ocn, Civ Engr, Envir St, Geosci, Zoology	1
940	Seminar in Plant Systematics and Evolution		1
941	Plant Taxonomy Journal Review		1
950	Seminar – Plant Ecology		1
951	Plant Ecology Journal Review		1
953	Seminar – Introduction to Ecology Research at UW-Madison	Agronomy, Atm Ocn, Entom, Envir St, F&W Ecol, Geog, Zoology	2
960	Seminar – Plant Physiology		1
980	Earth System Science Seminar	Atm Ocn, Envir St, F&W Ecol, Geog, Geosci, Zoology	1
990	Research – Phycology		1-12
994	Research – Plant Systematics		1-12
995	Research – Plant Ecology		1-12
996	Research – Plant Physiology		1-12