CLUSTER M1B
Global Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspective II
Description: (Formerly numbered General Education Clusters M1B.) (Same as Environment M1B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course M1A. 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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Winter 2017 - I really did not enjoy this class and would not recommend it. It is not engaging, the lectures just follow the slides, and are super repetitive. The material was very broad, but the test asked lots of very, very specific numbers and things. It was a very frustrating class. I wouldn't take it again.
Winter 2017 - I really did not enjoy this class and would not recommend it. It is not engaging, the lectures just follow the slides, and are super repetitive. The material was very broad, but the test asked lots of very, very specific numbers and things. It was a very frustrating class. I wouldn't take it again.
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Winter 2022 - This is the continuation of the food cluster, and while it's still amazing and better than the rest of the clusters, the material becomes slightly more challenging. I still highly recommend, because it's the best way to knock out a bunch of GEs freshman year while having one class to worry about during registration (because you're guaranteed a spot all three quarters). It's just something to be aware of, as the writing demands grow and the content becomes more challenging. The professors are still amazing!
Winter 2022 - This is the continuation of the food cluster, and while it's still amazing and better than the rest of the clusters, the material becomes slightly more challenging. I still highly recommend, because it's the best way to knock out a bunch of GEs freshman year while having one class to worry about during registration (because you're guaranteed a spot all three quarters). It's just something to be aware of, as the writing demands grow and the content becomes more challenging. The professors are still amazing!
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Winter 2016 - Professor Rice truly wanted to be an engaging and interesting lecturer, and I almost feel bad complaining about the workload given the grades I and most of the class received, however, the readings he assigned were dense, dull, and extensive, and his lectures lacked clarity and seemingly any connection at all to what we had been learning in the first half of the quarter in my opinion. Professor Rice tried to draw connection between economic and political philosophy and sustainability but ultimately I feel that this was poorly suited to the course as there was not enough time or detail to sufficiently tie it all together. Additionally, for the material taught, the final Professor Rice wrote had vague questions, and was far more difficult than one would expect from the course. To say one good thing, Professor Rice did an excellent job generating student interaction with his in class surveys, and he often had fun activities. He seems like a cool person, but he was for sure not my favorite Professor.
Winter 2016 - Professor Rice truly wanted to be an engaging and interesting lecturer, and I almost feel bad complaining about the workload given the grades I and most of the class received, however, the readings he assigned were dense, dull, and extensive, and his lectures lacked clarity and seemingly any connection at all to what we had been learning in the first half of the quarter in my opinion. Professor Rice tried to draw connection between economic and political philosophy and sustainability but ultimately I feel that this was poorly suited to the course as there was not enough time or detail to sufficiently tie it all together. Additionally, for the material taught, the final Professor Rice wrote had vague questions, and was far more difficult than one would expect from the course. To say one good thing, Professor Rice did an excellent job generating student interaction with his in class surveys, and he often had fun activities. He seems like a cool person, but he was for sure not my favorite Professor.
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