GDES 1312 MENTIONS WILL BE IN THE UPPER DOUBLE DIGITS WHEN YOU CTRL+F MY SUICIDE NOTE

Lots of color studies, painting, etc

Professor isn't bad at all honestly, it's the curriculum

This is the worst academic experience I have had to date. A ridiculously unnecessary and (despite its full-year length and 200-level rating) bafflingly shallow examination of the topic of food insecurity. Grading is almost entirely dependent on the competence and fairness of your TA, at least some of which are woefully amateur. There is not a single fellow student that I have engaged with in that class who has expressed even the slightest positive sentiment for this dumpster fire of a course.

While the topics being covered could be aptly summarized by your average third-grader, the weekly, "required" readings are often 10-20 pages in length. I say "required" in quotes, because in order to ace the individual and group quizzes, all you have to do is read through them and pick the answers that don't seem ridiculous. The entire curriculum is essentially going over relatively simple ideas such as the benefits of interdisciplinary cooperation, corporate greed & the tendency for large-scale consolidation, the fact that climate change is real, and the fact that people are indeed food insecure. None of these topics are explored in any meaningful detail. Multiple weeks were devoted the analysis of what felt like a single-panel comic of blind men touching an elephant and imagining differ...read more

The course profs (mine was taught by 4, who took turns) seem like solid folks. I'm sure they'd be lovely people to grab a coffee with and talk about farming, but they are woefully inept educators. The vast majority of the class feels like you are tuning in to a badly-recorded podcast by people who are demonstrably out of touch with the reality that poor people, especially young poor people, exist in. The surprise that wracks them when looking at data about food insecurity in Vancouver is acutely reproached by the hundreds of black zoom screens of students who, if you're like me, are budgeting just to know how many meals I need to skip this week in order to keep paying tuition. These profs are apparently experts in the field, but you wouldn't know it by the way they speak about the content...read more

The fact that this course is mandatory is a testament to the failure of educational institutions to deliver on the hollow promises they've sold you throughout your entire adolescent life. I recommend you re-examine the goals with which you are approaching your education and consider either changing programs, changing institutions, or taking up a hobby that can keep you entertained for at least 3 hours a week of lectures and discussion if all you want to do is get through this course so you can apply to med. If it wasn't so easy to pass without trying, I would recommend some kind of violent revolution in the spirit of something ****** and French. But in all seriousness, consider BCIT if you're looking for a good job. Otherwise, best of luck to you. This will be a rough go.