Spring 2027

Food for Thought: an Intersectional Approach

An intersectional examination of human relationships with food, exploring social, cultural, and political meanings across identities like gender, race, and class, and their implications for food systems and justice.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2009: 3.63 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2010: 3.43 GPA, 70.3% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Create a foundation of knowledge to support further academic work and civic engagement in food sovereignty/food justice movements

  • Define food justice and explore where and how it connects to ourselves and our communities

  • Identify the different actors in food politics and the varying/conflicting ideas and intentions around food production, distribution, and access as it relates to equity

  • Report on current food justice issues by analyzing the obstacles that create them

  • Research and describe local, regional, and global social movements and policies around food politics and food justice

  • Articulate various theoretical frameworks as they relate to food, identity politics, and intersectionality and use them in application of concrete ideas

  • Think, observe, and write critically and analytically and engage thoughtfully in analytic (rather than simply opinionated!) discussions

  • Apply pertinent theoretical and empirical evidence necessary to make critical and analytical arguments about gender and food politics through an intersectional lens

  • Articulate key issue areas of food justice and relate these issue areas to your area of disciplinary graduate level research

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

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GEN&WS 472

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2009: 3.63 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2010: 3.43 GPA, 70.3% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Social, cultural, and political meanings of food
  • Politics of food systems, sovereignty, and policy
  • Food justice and community connections
  • Cultural, ecological, and economic implications of food production and consumption

Skills

  • Critical and analytical writing and discussion
  • Applying theoretical frameworks to food, identity politics, and intersectionality
  • Researching social movements and policies related to food justice
  • Constructing critical arguments using empirical evidence

Grades

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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