The interdisciplinary Food Systems minor is designed to offer students a historical perspective and structural framework for studying our contemporary food system across disciplines. Students will identify and examine complex issues involving food, from soil to table, and develop knowledge and skills to become a more sustainable and responsible food citizen. The minor complements majors from across campus, including Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Choose one course from each of the following Disciplines to complete 9 credits.
Natural Science:
Social Science:
Humanities:
This course provides an introduction to world development with particular emphasis on food, population, economic and ecological issues related to global sustainable community development. The geographical focus emphasizes Latin America, Asia, and Africa and the connections and parallels in North America and Europe. The course objectives include the ability to understand critcally analyze several concepts, views and explanations pertaining to global poverty and sustainable development; analyze world population growth and its impacts on, and implications for, sustainable development; understand how capitalism, the international economic system has influenced, and continues to play a central role, in local economic and social development around the globe, and to understand and analyze global, national and local linkages, opportunities, planning and policy for addressing poverty and sustainable development issues.
Choose at least 3 courses from the following list:
This list is udpated annually. Please review the catalogue under year of declaration for specific curriculum requirements.