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 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, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.86 to 4.00.
- 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). 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 |
“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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for FOOD ST M79, 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.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 3 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Spring 2022. That is 3 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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.