Program Description
Enables undergraduate students across the university to engage with critical contemporary issues relating to food security, food sovereignty, and food justice. In a context of diverse goals and approaches, the CFS Minor focuses on working with community partners to collaboratively understand and develop sustainable community food systems. Global Development majors may take the Community Food Systems minor with approval from the department. No more than two courses (minimum 6 credits) can count towards the major and minor for all students. Students would need to have a distinct practicum experience that is not being used to fulfill any major or college requirement.
Minor Requirements
Students must take all courses for a letter grade and achieve a final grade of "C" or better. All courses are expected to be 3 credits with the exception of the pre-and-post practicum courses. All coursework for this minor is in person, in Ithaca, unless otherwise noted.
Required Courses
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| GDEV 2940 | Preparing for Food Systems and Agriculture Engaged Experiences | 1 |
| GDEV 3105 | Post-Internship: Reflection on Engaged Experiences | 1 |
| GDEV 3400 | Agriculture, Food, Sustainability and Social Justice 1 | 3 |
Elective Courses
Select three courses, at least one from each category:
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| AEM 3385 | Social Entrepreneurship Practicum: Anabel's Grocery | 3 |
| AIIS 3330 | Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge | 3 |
| ANSC 4140 | Ethics and Animal Science | 3 |
| BSOC 2061 | Ethics and the Environment | 4 |
| NTRES 3320 | | |
| PHIL 1440 | Ethics of Eating | 3 |
| AEM 2500 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 3 |
| ANSC 1120 | Sustainable Animal Husbandry | 3 |
| BEE 3299 | Sustainable Development | 3 |
| BIOEE 1610 | Introductory Biology: Ecology and the Environment | 3-4 |
| BIOEE 3611 | Field Ecology | 3 |
| BSOC 2201 | Society and Natural Resources | 3 |
| FDSC 4880 | Global Food, Energy, and Water Nexus – Engage the US, China, and India for Sustainable Future | 3-4 |
| PLSCI 3210 | Soil and Crop Management for Sustainability | 3 |
| PLSCI 4140 | Global Cropping Systems and Sustainable Development | 3 |
| PLSCI 4730 | Ecology of Agricultural Systems | 4.5 |
| BIOEE 4690 | Food, Agriculture, and Society | 3 |
| GDEV 4450 | Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing Countries | 3 |
| PLSCI 1900 | Sustainable Agriculture: Food, Farming, and the Future | 3 |
| PLSCI 3800 | Principles and Practices in Certified Organic Agriculture | 3 |
