FOOD ST M79
Food Politics: Cultural Solutions to Political Problems
Also listed as WL ARTS M79: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in FOOD ST M79. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 35 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 35 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 3.86 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 20.0%
- A 21 · 60.0%
- A- 6 · 17.1%
- B- 1 · 2.9%
- P 1 of 36
Percentages are of the 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TANDLER, JESSE MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.91 | 35 | 2 | 97% | very light | not teaching it |
| RANAWAKA, RAVINDU L reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.86 | 22 | 1 | 95% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- 1 paper, 6 mentions in past reviews
- 1 group work, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 10 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Winters
No grade records for this course in the 3 Winters covered, back to Spring 2022. This grade history does not establish current or future offerings.
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 World Arts and Cultures M79.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of issues of environmental and public health effects of intensive and extensive agriculture, influence of corporations on government, animal ethics, food deserts and urban gardening, and food insecurity. Focus on representation of such issues in documentaries, public lectures, memoirs, novels, and visual art, as well as on initiatives to address such problems through policy and activism. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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