FOOD ST M170XP
Food Studies and Food Justice in Los Angeles
Also listed as CESC M170XP: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.96
Average grade awarded in FOOD ST M170XP. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
98%
of the 45 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 45 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.96 to 3.97.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 26 · 57.8%
- A 16 · 35.6%
- A- 2 · 4.4%
- B 1 · 2.2%
Percentages are of the 45 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASSETT, JAMES reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.96 | 25 | 1 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
| HALL, SHAWN CAILEY reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.97 | 20 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for FOOD ST M170XP in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Community Engagement and Social Change M170XP.) Seminar, three hours; fieldwork, two hours. Interdisciplinary service learning course that provides general understanding of access and equity issues related to food chain in Los Angeles. Exploration of social justice issues faced by residents of lower-income communities. Reading of research from multiple disciplines, including but not limited to public health, environmental justice, and public policy. Service-learning component includes meaningful work with off-campus community partners selected in advance by instructor and Center for Community Learning. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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Student reviews
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