Learn more about academic and practice-based learning about food at Tufts!

Use the pull-down menu from the “LEARN” tab to see a listing of food-related classes each semester.

Below are the main centers for food studies around the university:

• the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  • the six divisions and centers within the Friedman School are listed here
  • Course listing found here
• the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Environment track of the Environmental Studies Program
• the Food Systems and Nutrition minor of the Environmental Studies Program

Other programs and departments around the university that include some focus on food-related topics:

• Community Health
• International Relations (see the Global Health, Nutrition, and the Environment concentration)
• Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy (UEP)

You can learn to be a farmer too!

• The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project is an initiative associated with the Friedman School and other collaborators and partners.

Tufts has a working farm on the Grafton campus of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

• Read about the farm and the associated farm field.
• Here’s a history of the Grafton State Hospital and “farm colony” that preceded the veterinary school.

Learn more about sustainable resources both on and off campus with the Office of Sustainability’s Eco-Map of Tufts.