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Dibs Fall 2026

CLUSTER M1A

Food: Lens for Environment and Sustainability

(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. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.87
n = 717 · 4 terms · ± 0.020
A range
93%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— of those passed
D / F / W
0.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Closed
125 of 125
100% full
 fills TR 9:00am-10:15am Shaked, S., Thomas, A.
3.87n=717 · course average

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 17621F
  • 17922F
  • 18223F
  • 18024F
Enrolment by term: 21F 176, 22F 179, 23F 182, 24F 180
Peak 182 Most recent 180 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 260 · 36.0%
  • A 332 · 46.0%
  • A- 73 · 10.1%
  • B+ 21 · 2.9%
  • B 17 · 2.4%
  • B- 3 · 0.4%
  • C 4 · 0.6%
  • C- 1 · 0.1%
  • F 6 · 0.8%
  • I 5 · 0.7%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
JAY, JENNIFER AYLA 3.87 3.87 717 4 93%
BASSETT, JAMES 3.88 3.88 182 1 93%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term