Food and Agriculture Lab and Workshop: Law. Policy. Principle. Practice.
- Semester: Spring 2025
- Course ID: 196V
- Credit Hours: 1
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Unique: 29315
Course Information
- Grading Method: Pass/Fail Mandatory
- Short course: Feb 14 - Mar 07, 2025
- Cross-listed with other school
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
Meeting Times
| Day | Time |
|---|---|
| FRI | 1:05 - 4:05 pm |
Evaluation Method
| Type | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other |
Description
This one-credit pass/fail offering will meet on four consecutive Fridays this Spring for three hours each session. Each of these meetings will center on a different aspect of the tentacular system by which foods are selected and grown for human or animal consumption both distantly and locally with the benefit of water and other resource entitlements; regulated by some government entity for a public purpose; allocated and distributed by means of markets or public programs; and either salvaged or wasted at the end of the mass market production and consumption cycle.
Topics that will be laced in may or are sure to include: food equity and food justice; food as health and medicine; early nutrition; animal and lab-made proteins; science, drugs, and politics; and climate transitions, related agricultural challenges and crises, and the human climate niche.
The course is designed to be highly inter-disciplinary and will emphasize new as well as traditional experiences that include reading, discussing, sharing, tasting, and collaborative learning in various modes. It will include guest-experts, an optional field trip, and, possibly, an optional off-site dinner to be prepared by class members and me, though you don't have to cook it to eat it.
Students from non-Law departments and programs may take the course pass/fail or, if a pass/fail course is unavailable to them, for one credit graded on the standard scale, derived from their performance of the requirements below.
Course requirements:
1--Attendance throughout all four meetings. "Attendance" entails well-focused, pertinent class contributions and may not include the use of devices, including cell phones and laptops, for activities not of direct and immediate relevance to this class. Activities of the latter kind are a sufficient ground for failing this course.
2--Three brief writings, two to be completed in class, one likely to be a group exercise.
Cohen, Jane M.