| Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning – the department of UEP department offers master’s degrees in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. For undergraduates, it offers an Urban Studies minor, involving courses in areas such as anthropology, community health, economics, and political science. The department of UEP offers undergraduate courses such as land use planning, cities and urban design, and housing policy. Students interested in food systems should consider the department of UEP as a place to synthesize distant topics such as public policy and environmental science into community-oriented skills that can help shape the transformation of urban food systems as we know them. Students interested in the department of UEP should visit their site here. |
| Community Health – the department of CH is an interdisciplinary program that touches on diverse aspects of health and society, and encourages the exploration of health issues from a variety of perspectives. The department of CH prepares students to enter the healthcare system with a broad understanding of the multitude of factors that play into the system. As food is increasingly being viewed as part of medicine, healthcare systems and food systems have significant overlap. An interdisciplinary program like this one allows students interested in food systems to explore determinants of health from that lens. Many of the public health challenges we face will be met at least in part by employing food and nutrition. Learn more about the department of CH here. |
| Environmental Studies – another interdisciplinary program, the ENVS program features faculty and courses in social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, and humanities and prepares students to be leaders in designing and applying policies and practices that support a healthy planet and environmental justice. The ENVS program allows students to explore how food systems interact with policy and the environment. The ENVS program offers a minor in Food Systems and Nutrition, which encompasses a wide array of topics addressing sustainable food production, policy, access and nutrition. Naturally, students interested in food systems should consider this minor or talk to faculty involved to get a sense for how to bring a food systems perspective into their studies. Find out ore about the ENVS program here. |
| International Relations – the IR program at the School of Arts and Sciences is larger than the others listed here, with 106 faculty from 20 departments. The core education requirements of this program are in diplomacy, economics, and social science. International cooperation is necessary to the success and sustainability of the global food system. Students who wish to specialize further in the ways in which IR connects with food systems can do so with the Global Health, Nutrition, and the Environment concentration. This concentration within the IR major allows students to make connections between fields of policy, environmental science, public health, and nutrition. Find out more about the IR program here. |
If you know of any departments or programs at the School of Arts and Sciences that you think should be included here because of their connection with food systems, please let us know!