CLUSTER M1A
Food: Lens for Environment and Sustainability
Description: (Same as Environment M1A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M1A is enforced requisite to M1B, which is enforced requisite to M1CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Food as lens for local and global environmental and sustainability issues. Integration of environmental, social, economic, and technological solutions for fair, sustainable, and healthy food production, food security, and access. Focus on human impacts on Earth's biological and physical systems, including how food production and consumption contributes to, and is impacted by, global problems, including climate change, pollution, and overpopulation. Laboratory exercises included in discussions. Letter grading.
Units: 6.0
Units: 6.0
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Fall 2023 - Professor Jay is very enthusiastic about the topic and attentive to our learning, but her classes are a bit disorganized. Homework are readings that are usually research papers and a detailed reflection about the reading. Her quizzes that we are supposed to take with no notes have questions that can only be answered if you memorized every single detail from her slides, almost like trivia. Her lectures and slides are decent but sometimes it is difficult to know what is the main idea we're supposed to take away. However, you can tell Professor Jay cares about whether you are learning or not because she is very thorough when you ask her questions. But it would be easier if she made the main idea of the lessons clearer in the lecture and slides with the quiz questions reflecting those.
Fall 2023 - Professor Jay is very enthusiastic about the topic and attentive to our learning, but her classes are a bit disorganized. Homework are readings that are usually research papers and a detailed reflection about the reading. Her quizzes that we are supposed to take with no notes have questions that can only be answered if you memorized every single detail from her slides, almost like trivia. Her lectures and slides are decent but sometimes it is difficult to know what is the main idea we're supposed to take away. However, you can tell Professor Jay cares about whether you are learning or not because she is very thorough when you ask her questions. But it would be easier if she made the main idea of the lessons clearer in the lecture and slides with the quiz questions reflecting those.
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Fall 2019 - I was really excited about this class but I was severely disappointed. PK is very knowledgeable but his lectures were very disorganized. I found myself constantly looking at the time because I was so disinterested. The discussions, labs, and four writing assignments felt like a waste of time, they didn't help with the retention of the course material at all but the TAs graded them generously. The midterm and final were divided into multiple-choice questions (which had varying weights, from about 2 to 6 points) and one group question. Most of the midterm questions were based on small details from lectures and readings that were insignificant to understanding the major topics and the group portion basically asked to remember one of the studies and replicate the graphs from the lecture. The final was much better in terms of multiple-choice questions (1 to 2 points each) but the group portion was a bit more difficult. I failed the midterm but did much better on the final. However, I think the extra credit (up to 11% grade boost) literally saved my grade.
Fall 2019 - I was really excited about this class but I was severely disappointed. PK is very knowledgeable but his lectures were very disorganized. I found myself constantly looking at the time because I was so disinterested. The discussions, labs, and four writing assignments felt like a waste of time, they didn't help with the retention of the course material at all but the TAs graded them generously. The midterm and final were divided into multiple-choice questions (which had varying weights, from about 2 to 6 points) and one group question. Most of the midterm questions were based on small details from lectures and readings that were insignificant to understanding the major topics and the group portion basically asked to remember one of the studies and replicate the graphs from the lecture. The final was much better in terms of multiple-choice questions (1 to 2 points each) but the group portion was a bit more difficult. I failed the midterm but did much better on the final. However, I think the extra credit (up to 11% grade boost) literally saved my grade.
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Fall 2020 - Great prof who really cared about this topic and class. I really learned a lot that I still use to this day. Super informative and its all stuff that is very good to know as a human being who consumes food (you get to learn hands on how your consumption patterns compare to others and how they affect the world which I found super cool).
Fall 2020 - Great prof who really cared about this topic and class. I really learned a lot that I still use to this day. Super informative and its all stuff that is very good to know as a human being who consumes food (you get to learn hands on how your consumption patterns compare to others and how they affect the world which I found super cool).
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Fall 2015 - This class really was easy but the tests are so short and worth SO much of your grade. The exams focus on such a small amount of information, so you end up overstudying but usually not the right information which really can damage your grade. Good class but just tricky and frustrating when it comes to tests.
Fall 2015 - This class really was easy but the tests are so short and worth SO much of your grade. The exams focus on such a small amount of information, so you end up overstudying but usually not the right information which really can damage your grade. Good class but just tricky and frustrating when it comes to tests.
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