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| Course ID: | GEOG 4890S/6890S. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Athens Urban Food Collective (AUFC) Service-Learning | Course
Description: | Through cooperative agreement with local non-governmental
agencies targeting hunger relief, this course provides students
with service-learning experience growing produce for local
consumption. Lectures, readings, and critical writing
assignments address different aspects of the industrial food
system, the nascent local food system, problems of hunger and
poverty, and related issues. | | Oasis Title: | Athens Urban Food Collective | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in GEOG 4890 or GEOG 6890 | | Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or
teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives.
Student engagement in the service-learning component will be
up to 25% of overall instruction time. | | Undergraduate Prerequisite: | GEOG 3630 or GEOG 3630E or GEOG 3660 or permission of department | | Graduate Prerequisite: | GEOG 3630 or GEOG 3630E or GEOG 3660 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | 1. To develop a critical understanding of the causes,
consequences, and responses to hunger in the United States,
within the context of the agro-industrial food system.
2. To develop an understanding of the origins, dynamics, and
consequences of the agro-industrial food system and political
economic critiques of that system.
3. As the service-learning component, gain hands-on experience
addressing hunger and food insecurity in Athens-Clarke County
through alternatives to the industrial agro-food system. The
student will apply problem-solving skills in culturally
appropriate service-learning projects with community partners.
An integral component of this course will be gaining hands-on
experience working effectively with a local community group
through a service-learning project. | | Topical Outline: | The history of the agro-industrial food system.
Current issues and debates concerning the agro-industrial food
system.
Political economy and political ecology of urban food systems.
Spatially uneven experience of hunger in the United States.
Social responses to spatial unevenness of hunger and food
insecurity nation-wide.
Spatially uneven experience of hunger in Athens-Clarke County.
Social responses to spatial unevenness of hunger and food
insecurity in Athens-Clarke County. | |
| Course ID: | GEOG 4890S/6890S. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | Athens Urban Food Collective (AUFC) Service-Learning |
Course
Description: | Through cooperative agreement with local non-governmental
agencies targeting hunger relief, this course provides students
with service-learning experience growing produce for local
consumption. Lectures, readings, and critical writing
assignments address different aspects of the industrial food
system, the nascent local food system, problems of hunger and
poverty, and related issues. |
| Oasis Title: | Athens Urban Food Collective |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in GEOG 4890 or GEOG 6890 |
| Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or
teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives.
Student engagement in the service-learning component will be
up to 25% of overall instruction time. |
| Undergraduate Prerequisite: | GEOG 3630 or GEOG 3630E or GEOG 3660 or permission of department |
| Graduate Prerequisite: | GEOG 3630 or GEOG 3630E or GEOG 3660 or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. To develop a critical understanding of the causes,
consequences, and responses to hunger in the United States,
within the context of the agro-industrial food system.
2. To develop an understanding of the origins, dynamics, and
consequences of the agro-industrial food system and political
economic critiques of that system.
3. As the service-learning component, gain hands-on experience
addressing hunger and food insecurity in Athens-Clarke County
through alternatives to the industrial agro-food system. The
student will apply problem-solving skills in culturally
appropriate service-learning projects with community partners.
An integral component of this course will be gaining hands-on
experience working effectively with a local community group
through a service-learning project. |
| Topical Outline: | The history of the agro-industrial food system.
Current issues and debates concerning the agro-industrial food
system.
Political economy and political ecology of urban food systems.
Spatially uneven experience of hunger in the United States.
Social responses to spatial unevenness of hunger and food
insecurity nation-wide.
Spatially uneven experience of hunger in Athens-Clarke County.
Social responses to spatial unevenness of hunger and food
insecurity in Athens-Clarke County. |
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