Sustainable Food Systems
可持续食品系统课程是一个跨学科的辅修课程, 学生将从多个学术和实践角度研究食品和农业领域的主题, 同时努力解决问题，创造更加可持续的粮食安全, equitable and healthy food future — for all. 我们的项目合作伙伴遍布校园和整个地区. In our classes, 你将学习包括农业生产在内的各种主题, food and the environment, nutrition and public health, food communication and media, food policy, food history, and more. 您将培养批判性分析技能，使您能够从多个角度检查我们所依赖的复杂食品系统.
为什么选择斯泰森大学的可持续食品系统?
我们的课程鼓励你批判性地审视自己在食物系统中的参与，并使你成为积极的食物系统变革的活动家. 实践和体验式学习是可持续粮食系统计划的核心部分. Students can participate in Hatter Harvest, the on-campus garden project, 或了解校园餐饮服务的可持续发展举措. Through the FOOD 102 practicum course, 所有可持续食品系统的未成年人都花一个学期的时间与社区合作伙伴一起努力改善食品系统.
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“你可以通过自己种植的食物和购买的食物来决定你想要生活在什么样的世界里, 所以我觉得这是一个人们可以做出改变的地方."
莎拉·克莱默博士，可持续食品系统助理教授
"...it's also personal. I was allergic to gluten and diary growing up and...有一个十大娱乐平台排行榜这些的课程对我来说真的很有趣。”
赖利麦戈文'19环境研究和可持续粮食系统
Career Outcomes
斯泰森的跨学科可持续食品系统计划准备学生实现对食品和社会的整体系统的观点. 我们的课程建立在环境科学和研究等不同领域, communication and media studies, nutrition, English, public health and chemistry. 这种方法使学生能够理解与我们当代食品系统相关的概念, and gain employment in such areas as:
- Sustainability
- Community food security and food justice
- Food nutrition and community nutrition
- Public health
- Environmental studies
- Food operations and distribution
- Extension education
- Food enterprise
- Food marketing
- Food supply chain design and/or management
- Community organizing for food issues
- Food, farm, nutrition and food security policy
- 农场，温室，花园和/或果园管理
- Food system mapping
- Farm-to-table sustainability consulting
预计到2030年，农业和食品科学家的总体就业人数将增长9%, about as fast as the average for all occupations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2021年5月，农业和食品科学家的平均年薪为74160美元.
Employment of farmers, 预计从2020年到2030年，牧场主和其他农业管理人员几乎没有变化, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, despite limited employment growth, approximately 84,800 openings for farmers, 每年对牧场主和其他农业管理者进行预测, on average, over the decade. 预计这些职位空缺中的大部分是由于需要替换那些转到其他职业或退出劳动力市场的工人.
- Wendy Anderson, PhD, Vanderbilt University
- Nancy Barber, MFA, University of Florida
- Sarah Cramer, PhD, University of Missouri
- Jason Evans, PhD, University of Florida
- Asal Johnson, PhD, Florida State University
- Ronette Lategan-Potgieter, PhD, University of the Free State-South Africa
- Tara J. Schuwerk博士，亚利桑那州立大学可持续食品系统主任
- Ben Tanner, PhD, University of Tennessee
可持续食品系统项目的学生将学习食品研究等课程, Growing Food in Cities, Special Topics in Sustainable Food Systems, Teaching Apprenticeship and more.
公平的种子是一门专注于社会正义的课程，这是斯泰森的核心价值观之一. 本课程探讨了食品和农业中种族、阶级和性别的历史和当前问题. Issues of access, power, 在农业生产领域解决特权和公平问题, food preparation and consumption. 学生将批判性地反思自己的背景, identities, 作为农业食品系统参与者的角色和责任.
Along with classroom work, students will engage in hands-on, experiential, digging-in-the-dirt learning — literally. 可持续食品生产入门实习课程是一门体验式课程，为学生提供了开发土壤的实际机会, plant and harvest food, process food for storage and distribution, prepare food for consumption, and manage food waste. Working side-by-side with farmers, food processors and distributors, and restaurant owners, 学生将学习农场到餐桌系统的各个方面.
Hatter Harvest 一个俱乐部的重点是校园内，学生主导的花园. 参与者将获得种植食物和观赏植物的技能和经验，所有俱乐部成员都可以分享. Club members work closely with Stetson's Gillespie Museum 培育本地植物和支持博物馆的种子库.
其他实践学习经验包括研究校园餐饮服务的可持续发展倡议.