CLUSTER M1CW
Food: Lens for Environment and Sustainability--Special Topics
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Also listed as ENVIRON M1CW: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
This is a year, not a class
Clusters run across three quarters, fall, winter, then the spring seminar, and UCLA counts the credit on completing the yearlong cluster: four GE requirements and the Writing II requirement. Signing up for the first quarter is signing up for the year.
Dibs only reads Fall 2026, so the later parts show no sections here: that is this term, not the sequence ending. What you keep if you take only part of a cluster is a question for the Cluster Program, not something these numbers answer.
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER M1CW. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 494 letter grades
D, F or W
0.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 494 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.89 to 3.92.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 170 · 34.4%
- A 263 · 53.2%
- A- 34 · 6.9%
- B+ 5 · 1.0%
- B 9 · 1.8%
- B- 6 · 1.2%
- C+ 2 · 0.4%
- C 3 · 0.6%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- D 1 · 0.2%
- DR 1 of 495
Percentages are of the 494 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JAY, JENNIFER AYLA reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.91 | 494 | 3 | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of 26 days ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER M1CW in any term it holds, 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
Has not run in Fall in the 3 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Spring 2023. 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 Environment M1CW.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course M1B. Limited to first-year freshmen. Examination of specialized environmental and sustainability topics as they relate to food, including air, water, biodiversity, climate change, food access, food security, and health. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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