Sustainable Food Systems

Description

Food is such a critical part of daily life. Explore topics in this concentration such as sustainable agriculture, improving access to quality food, the impact food has on health, and how policy impacts these systems to learn more about the sustainability of food systems and opportunities for creating positive change.

Food and sustainability are becoming increasingly relevant issues to employers in fields across the public and private sectors. Food systems can be complex and particularly vulnerable to multiple threats. This concentration in sustainable food systems allows students to gain a general understanding of these complex systems and lays the groundwork for them to create positive change.

In two required courses, students learn the fundamentals of sustainable food systems and what shapes a sustainable plate. Students also have the opportunity to take food systems electives from diverse academic units that are also addressing challenges to food system sustainability. It encourages students to cover a breadth of topics and perspectives related to food system issues such as sustainable agriculture, food justice and sovereignty, agriculture policy and governance, agribusiness, food systems leadership, and food culture.

Students will have a strong orientation towards problem solving and systems thinking and will demonstrate proficiency in critical, analytical and creative thinking by developing, communicating and applying practical solutions to food sustainability challenges. Students also will be able to assess and analyze the role of culture and society in shaping food systems.

Requirements:

• Students must complete 18 credit hours (12 of which must be upper-division) of the specified courses with a grade of "C" (2.00) or better in each course.
• At least 12 credit hours must be taken at ASU.
• Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this concentration.

• Any 498 courses must be taken with the topic indicated.
   

   

  Required Core
  SFS 215: Fundamentals of Sustainable Food Systems (SUST)  3
  SFS 216: The Sustainable Plate (SUST)   3

   

   

  Culture and Ethics
  ASB 300: Food and Culture (SOBE)
  BIO 324: Environmental Ethics (SUST)
  GPH 314: Global Change (SUST)
  HSC 355: Eating for Lifelong Health (SOBE)
  ITA 350: Food and Culture: The Mediterranean Lifestyle in Italy
  NTR 348: Cultural Aspects of Food (GCSI)
  NTR 353: The Western Diet
  NTR 448: Community Nutrition
  PLB 302: Plants and Civilization
  PUP 498: Urban Food Systems
  SOS 327: Sustainable Food and Farms
  SOS 370: Ethics of Eating (SUST)
  SOS 498: Indigenizing Food Systems

   

  
  Science and Society Electives
  ABS 434: Soil Ecology
  AGB 302: International Management and Agribusiness (GCSI)
  AGB 321: Agribusiness Sales and Marketing
  AGB 414: Food and Agribusiness Policy Issues
  AGB 452: Global Food and Agricultural Trade
  AGB 456: Food Product Innovation and Development
  BIO 320: Fundamentals of Ecology
  NTR 344: Nutrition Management and Leadership
  SOS 326: Sustainable Ecosystems
  SOS 328: Sustainability and Enterprise
  TDM 481: Sustainable Food Management in Tourism