University of Southern Maine: Food Studies Program Claimed
Are you curious about where your food comes from? Do you care whether the land it's grown on is being well care for and if the works are making a livable wage? Do you want to help end widespread hunger?
- Type:
- Food Security, Food Studies, Food Systems, Community Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture
- Establishment year:
- 2017
- Categories:
- Certificates
- Keywords:
- General info
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The Food Studies Graduate Certificate (12 credits) offers a unique opportunity to provide students with a broad interdisciplinary understanding of social, economic, political and environmental factors associated with global, national, regional and local food systems. The Graduate Certificate also provides opportunities for students to develop a range of professional skills central to work within food-related professions in the private, nonprofit and public sectors.
The Graduate Certificate is designed to achieve a range of student learning outcomes. Upon successful completion of the Graduate Certificate, students will be able to:
- Describe, critically analyze, and assess the multiple sectors within local, regional, national and global food systems.
- Discern the ways in which Maine’s and the region’s place-based food systems are the outcome of the intersection of geography, natural environment and social factors.
- Analyze contemporary and historical food systems in relation to systems of power, and evaluate the implications for environmental, social, and economic sustainability.Synthesize food systems concepts and knowledge and apply them to real world challenges through the development, design and evaluation of strategies for change.
- Reflect on and articulate one’s own core food system values, to identify and evaluate courses of action and spheres of influence that follow from those values.
- Employ knowledge and practice workforce skills such as leadership; intercultural competence; entrepreneurship; marketing and finance; policy analysis; advocacy and organizing; and oral and written communication.
Please note certificates may be pursued by either matriculated students or non-matriculated students (students not pursuing a full degree program).
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University of Southern Maine: Food Studies Program
Are you curious about where your food comes from? Do you care whether the land it's grown on is being well care for and if the works are making a livable wage? Do you want to help end widespread hunger?