CRS 336 Agriculture, Environment & Community
Spring 2008
Dr. Jessica Goldberger
jgoldberger@wsu.edu
Time: TuTh1:25–2:40pm
Room: CUE 216
This course is designed to explore how agricultural choices generate intended and unintended consequences for human communities and the natural environment. The course examines case studies of “conventional” and “alternative” agrifood systems, such as industrial agriculture, agricultural biotechnology, global and local agrifood systems, organic agriculture, and community-supported agriculture.
The primary objectives of the course are to help students:
- Develop an understanding of the intersection of agriculture, human communities, and the natural environment.
- Become familiar with new directions (such as agricultural biotechnology, community-supported agriculture, and certified organic production) within the U.S. agriculture and food sector.
- Develop the analytical tools necessary to evaluate the social and environmental consequences of agricultural choices, technologies, and movements.
- Measure and evaluate the “sustainability” of different agrifood systems, particularly in relation to human communities and the natural environment.
- Develop their own informed opinions about past, present, and future agrifood systems.
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