FOOD AND PLACE (ELR)

Catalog description

Course gives students a working knowledge in, and ability to understand and analyze, the intersections of food production, access and consumption. Course enables students to apply a critical geographic lens to compare the traditional food production system with alternatives at various scales, from local to global. Students focus on urban community gardening as one such alternative and personally interact with the Stark Campus’ Flash’s Food Garden as a case study in planning and preparing such a garden. Course combines lectures, discussions of scholarly publications, field trips, guest lectures and the hands-on experiential learning.