CLUSTER M1A
Food: Lens for Environment and Sustainability
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 77 minutes ago.
Also listed as ENVIRON M1A (closed by the department, standing limit): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
This is a year, not a class
Clusters run across three quarters, fall, winter, then the spring seminar, and UCLA counts the credit on completing the yearlong cluster: four GE requirements and the Writing II requirement. Signing up for the first quarter is signing up for the year.
Dibs only reads Fall 2026, so the later parts show no sections here: that is this term, not the sequence ending. What you keep if you take only part of a cluster is a question for the Cluster Program, not something these numbers answer.
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER M1A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
94%
of the 937 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
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: 937 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.81 to 3.96.
Historical grades for SHAKED, SHANNA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JAY, JENNIFER AYLA reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 937 | 5 | 94% | light | not teaching it |
| THOMAS, ARVIND reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 220 | 1 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
| O'SHEA, JANET M reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 220 | 1 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
| BASSETT, JAMES reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 182 | 1 | 93% | very light | 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.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 128 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Environment M1A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M1A is enforced requisite to M1B, which is enforced requisite to M1CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Food as lens for local and global environmental and sustainability issues. Integration of environmental, social, economic, and technological solutions for fair, sustainable, and healthy food production, food security, and access. Focus on human impacts on Earth's biological and physical systems, including how food production and consumption contributes to, and is impacted by, global problems, including climate change, pollution, and overpopulation. Laboratory exercises included in discussions. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 9:00am-10:15amClosed
Shaked, S. and Thomas, A.
3.89predicted, all instructors · 937 grades221 of 221 enrolled high risk
9 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 9 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (9)
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Dis 1A
T 2:00pm-3:50pm · Covel Commons 210
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1B
T 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons 210
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1C
W 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2317
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1D
W 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1E
F 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1F
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1G
T 6:00pm-7:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1H
T 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1I
T 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 176 and 220 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 220 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking CLUSTER M1A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Shaked, S. and Thomas, A. · 221 of 221 enrolled
Filled by 96 over about 2 months
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.