Courses Details
PUBHLTH309: Hunger In America: Building Skills To Feed Communities
- Undergraduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 2 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Kate Bauer (Residential);
- Last offered Winter 2022
- Prerequisites: None
- Advisory Prerequisites: None
- Description: In this course, we will move through critical stages of the life cycle (childhood, young adulthood, and older adulthood) to evaluate the causes, consequences, and solutions to food insecurity in the US.
- Learning Objectives: 1. Explain approaches to measuring household and individual food security. 2. Identify the relationships between social, economic, community, and personal circumstances that contribute to food insecurity. 3. Describe how food insecurity impacts social, physical, mental, and emotional well-being. 4. Reflect on the lived expertise of individuals with lived or living experience of food insecurity. 5. Evaluate how governmental and charitable food assistance programs impact food security.
- Syllabus for PUBHLTH309
