| Course ID: | ETAP 7410E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Hunger in Our Schools |
Course
Description: | Course focuses on issues of food security related to youth experiences in schools and communities. Students will examine the scope of hunger in communities and how it impacts young people’s opportunities and abilities to learn. Students will develop projects that attend to issues of hunger that go beyond charity. |
| Oasis Title: | Hunger in Our Schools |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students in this course will:
- Examine the scope of hunger in our local, national, and global communities
- Identify various reasons why many people around the world are hungry
- Consider possible routes for addressing hunger that will lead to real and lasting change in the lives of people who are food insecure
- Explore cultural connections to agriculture and gardening
- Explore the concept of service-learning as a means for connecting course curriculum to community issues like food insecurity
- Collaborate with school and community partners to conceptualize, plan, and implement a critical service-learning project addressing issues related to hunger and food insecurity in the local school community
- Reflect critically on their experiences addressing food insecurity in schools and communities |
| Topical Outline: | - Definitions and statistics associated with food insecurity and hunger
- History, critiques, impacts, and challenges of federal food legislation, policies, and programs, with emphasis on the National School Lunch Program
- History, critiques, impacts, and challenges of the emergency food system at-large
- Food desserts, food swamps, food apartheid, food sovereignty, and sustainable food systems
- Farm-to-school programs and practices
- Curriculum resources to address issues of food insecurity in classrooms and schools |