| FSS 500: Food Systems Inquiry |
Provides a foundation for advanced academic engagement and inquiry in food systems and society focusing on the concepts of social problems, critical inquiry, and praxis. |
4 |
| FSS 501: Concepts & Contexts in Food Systems & Society |
Discusses the history, drivers, and context of contemporary food system issues through lenses of class, race-ethnicity, and gender. Reviews the roles of discourse, ideology and epistemology in our understanding and shaping of the food system. |
4 |
| FSS 502: Academic Foundations |
Establishes practices for collegial engagement and graduate-level academic reading and writing proficiency integral to FSS coursework. |
1 |
| FSS 503: Critical Text-based Research |
Develops information searching strategies, information management, and citation practices in the social sciences through a critical framework. |
1 |
| FSS 504: Capstone Preparation |
Prepares students for Capstone research by applying conceptual frameworks of food systems, society, social justice, and social problems. Students identify a Capstone social problem and develop a research problem for their Capstone inquiry. |
1 |
| FSS 505: Scholarly Communication |
Students develop and apply academic writing and communication skills relevant to their Capstone research. |
1 |
| FSS 506: Capstone Completion |
Students present the findings of their Capstone research, discuss the findings of other students’ research, and finalize their Capstone Research Synthesis document. |
1 |
| FSS 510: Food Policy and Politics |
Explores causes, consequences, and cures for social-justice problems evident in the food system related to social decisions in food policy and politics, examining literature, policy, and practice at various scales. |
4 |
| FSS 511: Food Systems and Culture |
Investigates frameworks, issues, and representations of race-ethnicity, class, gender, and their intersections through lenses of structure, agency, privilege, and oppression. |
4 |
| FSS 520: Food Systems Theories and Methodologies |
Explores theories from multiple disciplinary perspectives relevant to critical inquiry in food systems and society. Considers how to effectively apply conceptual frameworks to ask and answer questions relevant to social justice in food systems and society. |
4 |
| FSS 550: Social Movements in Food Systems and Society |
Explores social movement theory and practice in the food system and beyond, considering implications and insights for creating socially-just change. |
4 |
| FSS 560: Economic Justice in Food Systems & Society |
Explores political-economic concepts, structures, and processes relevant to social justice in food systems and society. |
4 |
| FSS 580: Scholarship and Social Change |
Considers the role of scholarship in food system equity and social change. |
4 |
| FSS 590: Capstone Independent Study |
Arranged course for independent Capstone research in food systems and society. Instructor permission required. May be repeated for credit. |
1 |
| FSS 598-A: Capstone 1 |
Students complete the first phase of their Capstone Research Synthesis, which includes their research problem, conceptual frameworks, and research approaches. Pre-requisites: Passing grades in FSS 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 510, 511, and 520. |
4 |
| FSS 598-B: Capstone 2 |
Students continue and apply work begun in Capstone 1 through data collection and analysis and writing. Pre-requisite: Passing grade in FSS 598-A. |
4 |
| FSS 598-C: Capstone 3 |
Students synthesize their Capstone inquiry in a written Capstone Research Synthesis. Pre-requisite: Passing grade in FSS 598-B. |
4 |
| FSS 598-D: Capstone Continuation |
Students continue Capstone research and writing beyond the required Capstone course series if needed to complete their Capstone Research Synthesis. Instructor permission required. May be repeated for credit. Pre-requisite: Passing grade in FSS 598-C. |
2 |
| Total Required Credits |
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49 |