The Food Systems Graduate program offers a transdisciplinary, cohort educational model. A student’s course of study in either the MS or PhD program will integrate a comprehensive understanding of food systems with focused disciplinary inquiry. Students draw from each other’s skills and experiences to foster a more rich and diversified learning environment. The program curriculum integrates humanities, social and natural science approaches to understanding complex and interdependent food systems of varying scope and scale.
From Inquiry to Action
¶¶Òõ̽̽'s , one of the cross-college interdisciplinary programs on campus that is managed by the Graduate College, cultivates students to be adaptable problem solvers and systems thinkers. Our program prepares students to address some of the most challenging problems of contemporary food systems, such as building climate change resilience, reducing waste across the supply chain and exploring equitable distribution and fair labor practices. Our curriculum is designed to inspire and motivate students through a diversity of research methods, transdisciplinary and systems thinking approaches and forms of community engagement. Students have the opportunity to:
10-Year Program Report
The Food Systems Graduate Program welcomed its first cohort of students in the fall of 2012. In the spring of 2022, program leadership created a 10-year program report to reflect on the first 10 years of the program and envision the future of the program.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Food Systems Graduate Program at ¶¶Òõ̽̽ studies the inter-connected actors and processes in the modern food system, from production through disposal, and the opportunities for closing this loop. Food systems are inherently built on multiple, intersectional inequalities, and as researchers, scholars, practitioners, and community members, we use our diverse methodological and disciplinary orientations to study and address these inequalities.
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