Undergraduate Study
Learning Objectives
Upon satisfactory completion of the BA in Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health, graduates will be able to:
Food Systems
- Describe multiple food systems
- Articulate the challenges the world is facing and will encounter in the future with respect to food and nutrition
- Apply conceptual, theoretical, and technical food systems concepts and knowledge to real-world circumstances and challenges, including designing and evaluating solutions
Nutrition & Health
- Define social, economic, cultural, and environmental influences on food access and dietary choices
- Evaluate and predict ways in which complex interactions of components of the food system influence human health and nutrition
- Demonstrate an understanding of public health
Intellectual & Practical Skills
- Demonstrate clear and effective oral and written communication through a variety of methods
- Exercise critical thinking skills, including analysis, design, ethical decision making, future visioning, evaluation, and problem-solving
- Apply inquiry and analysis (assessment, critique, and reflection) techniques