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Bachelor of Arts: Food Studies

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Undergraduate BA

College

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

CIP Code

190501

Requirements

Course

Title

CR

Fall

Spring

Summer

One Introductory Course (3 Credits):

NFDS 2050

Introduction to Food Studies

3

X

Choose One of the Following Food and Culture Courses (3 Credits)*:

NFDS 2101

American Culinary History: From the Erie Canal to the Food Network

3

X

NFDS 3401

Eating Identities

3

X

NFDS 3410

Food and Migration

3

X

NFDS 2120

The Sweet and the Bitter

3

X

Choose One of the Following Health & Environment Courses (3 Credits)*:

NFDS 4715

Food and the Environment

4

X

NFDS 2720

Food and the Human Body

3

X

Choose One of the Following Policy and Politics Courses (3 Credits)*:

NFDS 3201

Making Sausage: Policy Tools for Food Systems, Environment & Design

3

X

NFDS 3202

Food, Power & Paradox

3

X

ULEC 2662

Global Food and Human Rights

0

X

ULEC 2663

Global Food & Human Rights:DSC

3

X

Choose Two of the Following Elective Courses (6 Credits)*:

NMGT 2200

Convince with Numbers

3

X

NMGT 2100

Introduction to Management

3

X

NMGT 2115

Introduction to Marketing

3

X

NMGT 2133

Finance for Management

3

X

NMGT 2110

Basic Accounting

3

X

NMGT 2400

Introduction to Nonprofit Management

3

X

NMGT 3140

Growing a Small Business

3

X

NMGT 2112

Big Data: Marketing and Consumer Research

3

X

NMGT 2120

Public Relations: Practice and Critique

3

X

X

Culture, Media, and Communication Concentration (12 Credits)

Term(s) Offered

Course

Title

CR

Fall

Spring

Summer

Choose Four of the Following Courses (12 Credits)*:

NFDS 3410

Eating Identities: Food, Gender and Race

3

X

NFDS 2009

Design Thinking, Food/Climate

3

X

NFDS 3615

Feasting Your Eyes: Food and Film

3

X

NFDS 2110

Culinary Luminaries: A Celebration of Those Who Have Changed the Way We Eat

3

X

NFDS 4100

Understanding Global Food and Social Justice through Music

3

X

NFDS 2906

NYC Eats: Food, People, Places

3

X

NFDS 2615

Food and Media

3

X

NFDS 2080

Introduction to Food Design

3

X

NFDS 2102

Drinking History

3

X

NFDS 3019

Black Farmers & Foodways: US

3

X

NFDS 2101

American Culinary History

3

X

Health and Environment Concentration (12 Credits)

Term(s) Offered

Course

Title

CR

Fall

Spring

Summer

Choose Four of the Following Courses (12 Credits)*:

NFDS 3714

Food and the Environment

4

X

NFDS 3406

Umami Studies

3

X

NFDS 3720

Urban Agriculture and Food Activism

3

X

NFDS 2957

Zero Food Waste

3

X

NFDS 3019

Black Farmers & Foodways: US

3

X

Policy and Politics Concentration (12 Credits)

Term(s) Offered

Course

Title

CR

Fall

Spring

Choose Four of the Following Courses (12 Credits)*:

NFDS 3201

Making Sausage: Policy Tools for Food Systems, Environment & Design

3

X

NFDS 3202

Food, Power & Paradox

3

X

NFDS 3410

Food and Migration

3

X

NFDS 2009

Design Thinking, Food/Climate

3

X

NFDS 2400

Kids and Food

3

X

NFDS 4100

Understanding Global Food and Social Justice through Music

3

X

NFDS 3019

Black Farmers & Foodways: US

3

X

ULEC 2662

Global Food and Human Rights

0

X

ULEC 2663

Global Food & Human Rights: DSC

3

X

* Sample Courses. Others may be approved by Food Studies Program Chair

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