ELTS M25
Global Food Studies: Ecocultural Sustainability and Diversity
Also listed as FOOD ST M25: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in ELTS M25. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 27 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
10%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 27 grades over 1 term, 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 6 · 22.2%
- A 16 · 59.3%
- A- 3 · 11.1%
- B+ 2 · 7.4%
- P 3 of 30
Percentages are of the 27 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NATHAN, VETRI reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.91 | 27 | 1 | 93% | - | 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.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of about 1 month ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Food Studies M25.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Food is culture--and has been a global force since the first formation of human societies. The intercontinental movement of tomatoes, sugarcane, rice, tobacco, and spices has directly influenced populations, economies, empires, and ecologies; while food today shapes our local and transnational experiences of nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, race, labor, and natural ecosystems. Interdisciplinary exploration of how people use food to imagine themselves as individuals and/or as part of a group as well as a wider globally-interconnected ecosystem. Identification of the importance of food in different eras and cultures by exploring the way nationality, race, gender, socioeconomic status, etc. influence global food choices or practices. Examination also of how a diverse range of cultures are maintained or transformed through food. Through the examination of scholarly research and global culinary traditions, exploration of the complex relationship that societies, nations, and ecosystems have with food. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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