CLUSTER M1B
Food: Lens for Environment and Sustainability
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 2021 - If you took M1A, definitely continue with M1B. I recommend this class to any non-environmental majors who are interested in the environment because it is a great way to knock out science GEs and it is pretty interesting. What I liked most about this class was that all professors were extremely accommodating during covid and made each student feel like they mattered. This cluster felt like a real community :) Professor Jennifer taught the class for the first half of the quarter, and Professor Shanna taught it for the second. Both were more confusing and the topics were more complicated than M1A, but overall still pretty easy.
Winter 2021 - If you took M1A, definitely continue with M1B. I recommend this class to any non-environmental majors who are interested in the environment because it is a great way to knock out science GEs and it is pretty interesting. What I liked most about this class was that all professors were extremely accommodating during covid and made each student feel like they mattered. This cluster felt like a real community :) Professor Jennifer taught the class for the first half of the quarter, and Professor Shanna taught it for the second. Both were more confusing and the topics were more complicated than M1A, but overall still pretty easy.
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Fall 2017 - Overall I really enjoyed this freshman cluster, which was taught by a combination of professors including Nordby. I found the class engaging and a great experience for freshman (on the Hill, field trips and other activities over a year long period). I found some of the assignments busywork but the grading seemed fair to get an A. The structure is three classes over three quarters, the final spring quarter being a seminar, which I really enjoyed as it was experience with seminars and research.
Fall 2017 - Overall I really enjoyed this freshman cluster, which was taught by a combination of professors including Nordby. I found the class engaging and a great experience for freshman (on the Hill, field trips and other activities over a year long period). I found some of the assignments busywork but the grading seemed fair to get an A. The structure is three classes over three quarters, the final spring quarter being a seminar, which I really enjoyed as it was experience with seminars and research.
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Winter 2022 - Professor Shaked teaches in the 2nd quarter of the food cluster and she does a really good job making sure her presentations are organized which I appreciate and her teaching style was very clear and to the point. I also liked how she would use example questions in the slide so we would know what to expect when we got to the test. Overall this was a really good portion of the food cluster! (and overall, i would highly recommend the food cluster, very interesting material if you are interested in sustainability and not way too much work like some of the other UCLA cluster classes).
Winter 2022 - Professor Shaked teaches in the 2nd quarter of the food cluster and she does a really good job making sure her presentations are organized which I appreciate and her teaching style was very clear and to the point. I also liked how she would use example questions in the slide so we would know what to expect when we got to the test. Overall this was a really good portion of the food cluster! (and overall, i would highly recommend the food cluster, very interesting material if you are interested in sustainability and not way too much work like some of the other UCLA cluster classes).
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