PACE-C
420 Readings and Research
Special
1-credit class # 32637: Leadership, Service & Advocacy: Food Policies
and Priorities from Local to Global.
Friday
12:20 – 1:35 PM, Woodburn 203 (some in-class meetings will be replaced by project
work)
This course includes a practice
component of leadership, service, and advocacy in the context of food policy
and poverty. First, we will examine a variety of economic, ecological,
sociological and political dimensions of food in local, national, and
international contexts. Investigating the policies and processes that drive the
production, distribution, and consumption of food will be used to examine the
effects of these policies and processes on our diet, our health, our economy
and our environment from the local to the global. Then, we will analyze
different approaches to leadership and advocacy as they relate to food policy
and poverty. As a final project for the course, students will have the
opportunity to put the knowledge and skills they have learned throughout the
semester into practice by advocating for a local cause related to food and
poverty or contributing to an existing Oxfam America initiative on the IU
campus.
