CLUSTER M1A
Global Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspective I
Description: (Formerly numbered General Education Clusters M1A.) (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 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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Fall 2021 - TAKE THIS CLUSTER!! If you are a non-STEM major, this is the easiest way to satisfy your GEs. Everybody in all the other clusters was jealous of how easy and light our workload was. You need to attend lectures to do the participation on iClicker and for the in-class group activities, but Prof Simons and Moana are amazing, hilarious, and engaging lecturers so it is genuinely a good time. The assignments are mainly extremely easy and there are a lot of them to cushion your grade, so make sure to do all of them. There was a midterm and a final, both with an individual section as well as a group section. Both are very easy and if you pay any attention during lecture you will do well. There is a research paper assignment that is somewhat challenging but they walk you through it and most people end up doing well. If you can, get Elizabeth as your TA because she is the most genuine and caring TA ever!! 10/10 recommend this class.
Fall 2021 - TAKE THIS CLUSTER!! If you are a non-STEM major, this is the easiest way to satisfy your GEs. Everybody in all the other clusters was jealous of how easy and light our workload was. You need to attend lectures to do the participation on iClicker and for the in-class group activities, but Prof Simons and Moana are amazing, hilarious, and engaging lecturers so it is genuinely a good time. The assignments are mainly extremely easy and there are a lot of them to cushion your grade, so make sure to do all of them. There was a midterm and a final, both with an individual section as well as a group section. Both are very easy and if you pay any attention during lecture you will do well. There is a research paper assignment that is somewhat challenging but they walk you through it and most people end up doing well. If you can, get Elizabeth as your TA because she is the most genuine and caring TA ever!! 10/10 recommend this class.
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