Food Systems and Security

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the U.S. food system with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Issues covered include food insecurity, social justice, community and worker health concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, and ecological degradation. Further, this course examines the complex interrelationships between diet, food production, environment, and human health to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment, and the ability to sustain life for future generations. Prerequisite: FNS 200 . Offered Fall, Spring.