WL ARTS M79
Food Politics: Cultural Solutions to Political Problems
Also listed as FOOD ST M79: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.95
Average grade awarded in WL ARTS M79. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 119 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 119 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.83 to 4.00.
- A+ 37 · 31.1%
- A 72 · 60.5%
- A- 6 · 5.0%
- B+ 2 · 1.7%
- B- 1 · 0.8%
- C 1 · 0.8%
- P 2 of 121
Percentages are of the 119 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TANDLER, JESSE MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 108 | 3 | 96% | very light | not teaching it |
| RANAWAKA, RAVINDU L reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.93 | 37 | 1 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| DAVIS, JACQUELINE MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 4.00 | 11 · small sample | 1 | 100% | very light | 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 WL ARTS 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 Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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 Food Studies 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.