ENVIRON M1A
Food: Lens for Environment and Sustainability
Description: (Same as GE Clusters 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 - I loved Basset and I'm going to miss him so much. His lectures weren't boring and he talked in an engaging way. He would also say when to write an important thing down. He was passionate about the subject and even recommended books for us to read if we were interested. We had quizzes every week that were 10 questions and they were based off of lectures and some readings about certain people. I found the questions about the people in the readings to be the harder questions on the quizzes and they would be like "what would ___ agree with ___." The quizzes are all open note though and take home. We also got a second attempt at the quiz, but it takes the average of your two scores instead of the best score and doesn't tell you what questions you got right or not. Sometimes, it might be better not to retake it if you got a decent score because I retook it one time and got a lower score than my first attempt somehow so it averaged out to be lower. The discussions for the course would be other assignments and stuff and we usually worked with other ppl in the discussion, but it was like a 2 hour block and the second half would often just be work time so a lot of the times, my TA would let us leave early. We also had a research paper/writing project that was worth 40% of our grade, but the PRWS and TA's were happy to help and answer questions.
Fall 2023 - I loved Basset and I'm going to miss him so much. His lectures weren't boring and he talked in an engaging way. He would also say when to write an important thing down. He was passionate about the subject and even recommended books for us to read if we were interested. We had quizzes every week that were 10 questions and they were based off of lectures and some readings about certain people. I found the questions about the people in the readings to be the harder questions on the quizzes and they would be like "what would ___ agree with ___." The quizzes are all open note though and take home. We also got a second attempt at the quiz, but it takes the average of your two scores instead of the best score and doesn't tell you what questions you got right or not. Sometimes, it might be better not to retake it if you got a decent score because I retook it one time and got a lower score than my first attempt somehow so it averaged out to be lower. The discussions for the course would be other assignments and stuff and we usually worked with other ppl in the discussion, but it was like a 2 hour block and the second half would often just be work time so a lot of the times, my TA would let us leave early. We also had a research paper/writing project that was worth 40% of our grade, but the PRWS and TA's were happy to help and answer questions.
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Fall 2024 - She's very knowledgeable in her field, but her lectures weren't very engaging and I wasn't a fan of the assignments. The "labs" she assigned were a lot of work and meant to teach us how to create a project by the end of the quarter, but everybody was confused about what was expected by week 10. It was fine, but I felt that I didn't learn much of the skills that we were supposed to pick up. The grading is lenient and the quizzes are easy. She brings on a few guest speakers, which are more interesting than the lectures
Fall 2024 - She's very knowledgeable in her field, but her lectures weren't very engaging and I wasn't a fan of the assignments. The "labs" she assigned were a lot of work and meant to teach us how to create a project by the end of the quarter, but everybody was confused about what was expected by week 10. It was fine, but I felt that I didn't learn much of the skills that we were supposed to pick up. The grading is lenient and the quizzes are easy. She brings on a few guest speakers, which are more interesting than the lectures
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