Food Politics: Cultural Solutions to Political Problems

Grades

3.95

Average grade awarded in WL ARTS M79. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.054.

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.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for WL ARTS M79 ↗

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.

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 02 Sep 02:41: the oldest of these 3 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 MW 9:00am-10:50am

  Open

  Tandler, J.M. and an unnamed TA

  3.94

  this instructor · 108 grades

  23 seats left. 11 of 34 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  limited limited to: Choreographic Inquiry (Dance) or Dance/Movement or World Arts and Cultures or Culture and Performance Majors, and New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  2 discussions, all open.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (2)

  • Dis 1A

    F 10:00am-10:50am · Kaufman Hall 153

    limited limited to: Choreographic Inquiry (Dance) or Dance/Movement or World Arts and Cultures or Culture and Performance Majors, and New Students Only: restrictions read 22 hours ago
    Open

    9 seats left.

    8 of 17 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    F 11:00am-11:50am · Kaufman Hall 153

    limited limited to: Choreographic Inquiry (Dance) or Dance/Movement or World Arts and Cultures or Culture and Performance Majors, and New Students Only: restrictions read 22 hours ago
    Open

    14 seats left.

    3 of 17 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 59 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 39 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.