Food Studies (MAFS)

Admission Requirements

• 获得认可的学院或大学颁发的学士学位
• 总体平均绩点(GPA)为3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale. Applicants with less than a 3.通过其他成绩表现出极大希望的学生可能会被有条件录取.
• 填妥的申请表格(见 here)，其中包括提交以下文件:
  • Curriculum vitae or resume
  • Admissions Essay
  • 两封推荐信，最好来自学术机构
  • 正式的本科和研究生成绩单，由机构直接发送
  • 额外的写作示例(可选，但鼓励)

International Applicants

FST 607: Sustainable Consumption

可持续的粮食系统支持环境健康和地方经济，并具有社会公正. “可持续”饮食意味着在选择食物时遵循这些概念. 本课程首先在区域食品系统工作和区域食品系统评估的背景下定义和描述“可持续饮食”. 然后，学生将从三个角度探讨可持续消费:消费者的观点, including nutritional health, perception of “sustainability”, how food choices are made, and marketing issues like eco-labels; the growers’ and producers’ viewpoint, including questions of logistics and food safety; and the institutions’ or food business’ challenges of incorporating what we would consider foods grown and/or sourced in a sustainable manner in their operations.

FST624:巧克力，政治和快乐

本课程将探讨巧克力作为一种全球产品的历史和文化, agriculture (growing trees, processing beans), direct/fair trade, labor and justice, health, chocolate production, sales, marketing, and sustainability. 体验元素包括巧克力制作, tempering; culinary practices, 对巧克力制造商进行实地考察, 最终在设计和营销可持续的巧克力产品.

FST532:可持续肉类生产

作为可持续农业和烹饪知识的一部分, 了解传统大型加工设施之外的肉类生产对将在餐馆工作的学生来说是一项关键技能, farm markets, and other distribution venues.