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Program Structure
The MAFS is a 42 credit program; Students may opt for a final project or thesis: thesis and/or internship requires 3 additional credits. The program is structured around core courses (2 per semester), required courses (choice of 1 per semester), concentration courses and electives (4 total). (all courses are 3 credits unless noted)
Curriculum:
FST 550 Food Systems and Commodity Chains
FST 600 Research Methods in the Social Uses of Food
FST 603 Food, Culture, and History
FST 602 Theories of Food: Growing, Eating, Thinking (OR) Ethics and the Food System
FST 601 Food Access and Food Security
FST 605 Cuisines and Culinary Methods
FST 606 Sustainable Agricultural I and II
FST 614 Applied Agricultural Microbiology
FST 615 Scientific Literacy for Food Studies
FST 616 Practical Nutrition
FST 640 Food and Literary Representations
FST 650 Internship
FST 700 Field Work or International Study
Required Courses:
- Food Systems and Commodity Chains
- Research Methods in Food Studies
- Food, Culture, and History
- Growing, Eating, and Cooking: Theories of Food
- Food Access
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Cuisines and Culinary Arts
Students will also be required to take at least two of the following:
- Basic culinary arts instruction
- Basic introduction to sustainable agricultural practices
- Basic nutrition
- Basic scientific literacy for food studies
Electives and Concentrations:
HISTORY AND CULTURE
History of Agriculture
Local Foodways: from Ethnic to Organic
Cuisines in Global Comparative
Oral History
Gender and Food History
Food and Literary Representations
Food Journeys
Cookbooks as Literary Texts
FOOD POLITICS
Community-based Food Security
The Future of Food
Food Fights
Fair Trade and Food Sovereignty
Food, Labor, and Inequality
Women and Global Agriculture
Producing Food, Producing Difference
FOOD MARKETS AND MARKETING
The Business of Food
Sustainable Food Management
Fair Trade and Food Sovereignty
History of Domestic and Commercial Consumption
Local Foodways: From Ethnic to Organic
Market Research and Sustainability
Other
Thesis
Internship
International Study or Field Work
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