Advocating for Healthier Diets

Catalog description

Students in this course learn how to resolve issues in the American food system and the American diet by using a systems thinking approach. Using visual models as a guide, strengths and deficits in the food system are identified, and potential change targets are detected. Then, students learn how to build coalitions and advocate for policy and program change as a key tool to improve the public’s health. Offered at Providence 3 Semester Credits