AMES-120CN
ASIAN FOODWAYS IN MIGRATION
Offered Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that discussion is a clear strength. Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
DepartmentAMES
Terms offeredFall
Typical enrollment23–23
Semesters of data1
2.2
Hrs / week
20
Responses
23
Enrollment
87%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.7
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.3
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.7
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
2.3
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysislow
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 62 comments across 1 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that discussion is a clear strength. Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
More reachable A
Student comments make the grading bar sound relatively reachable. This reads more like a course where steady work is rewarded than one where students describe the A as unusually hard to land.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Lighter lecture burden
Student comments describe this as more discussion-, seminar-, or workshop-driven than lecture-dependent. The lecture burden itself does not sound like the main source of friction.
Strengths
• Discussion is a clear strength; students repeatedly describe the class conversation as engaging and useful.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent.
Watch out for
• Most of the signal comes from a limited sample, so be careful about over-generalizing.
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
I learned to look at food with a new perspective and take in not only its history impact but how the piece of food has changed and adapted over years do to the influence of different cultures.
Fall 2025 · Chow, Eileen
I have learned about foodways in migration as the title of the class mentions. As a class, we were able to discuss our different cultures and share foods and traditions with each other. We were also able to make sandwiches and learn about local food banks that we can donate to.
Fall 2025 · Chow, Eileen
Thinking about hunger challenges, how food travels, foods importance in family.
Fall 2025 · Chow, Eileen
I learned a lot of history about Asian food and migration as well as new ways to think about food and how we interact with it.
Fall 2025 · Chow, Eileen
I read articles about the movement of food, analyzed my personal eating, and discussed how culture shapes foodways.
Fall 2025 · Chow, Eileen
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Chow, Eileen 4.3Rate My ProfessorsQuality4.3Difficulty1.9Would retake100%Based on 16 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.7 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 23 |
Instructor
Chow, EileenAMES
Also teaches
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