URBS 331 Food and the City
This course explores the intersections between food and the urban environment, focusing on the ways food production, distribution, and consumption impact environmental concerns, public health, and policy. Through readings, guest speakers, site visits, hands-on projects, and volunteer work, students analyze how food is grown, harvested, packaged, shipped, and sold. The class is particularly concerned with current issues in food politics (labor, policy, immigration), food justice (underserved communities, food insecurity), trends in food movements (locavore, slow food, farmers' markets), and the impacts of industrial agribusiness on environmental concerns. Prerequisites: WRIT 313, Advanced Academic Writing; LSCI 105, Information Theory and Practice, or LSCI 106, Information Sources in Architecture and Interior Design or, LSCI 205, Information in the Disciplines; MDST 120, Public Speaking