WL ARTS M79
Food Politics: Cultural Solutions to Political Problems
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 11 hours ago.
Also listed as FOOD ST M79 (closed, 10 of 10 enrolled): 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 student 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. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.83 to 4.00.
Historical grades for TANDLER, JESSE MICHAEL, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 37 · 34.3%
- A 61 · 56.5%
- A- 6 · 5.6%
- B+ 2 · 1.9%
- B- 1 · 0.9%
- C 1 · 0.9%
- P 2 of 110
Percentages are of the 108 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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TANDLER, JESSE MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 108 | 3 | 96% | very light | Closed |
| RANAWAKA, RAVINDU L reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.93 | 37 | 1 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| DAVIS, JACQUELINE MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 4.00 | 11 · | 1 | 100% | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- No exams, 1 mention in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- 5 papers, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Group works mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 14 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 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
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 40 of 40 enrolled
Instructor
Tandler, J.M., Yasue, A., and Capobianco, S.
3.94Predicted GPA
Historical records for TANDLER, JESSE MICHAEL; 108 letter gradesSeat risk
high risk
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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking WL ARTS M79 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 · Tandler, J.M., Yasue, A., and Capobianco, S. · 40 of 40 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 11 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 30.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.