Natural Sciences 191CNS17 - FYS-Understanding Food&Climate

Climate change will profoundly affect our lives in many ways, even down to the very food we eat. Food is essential for survival and our complex food system, and all that depends on it, faces a big threat with climate change. We will explore the links between the food system and our changing climate with an emphasis on systems thinking. In science we tend to segregate, looking at just one part of a system, while systems thinking looks at the whole picture. In order to mitigate some of the effects of climate change and make our food system more resilient, we will think critically about how to build a more resilient food system, considering everything from how and what farmers grow, to how food is processed and transported to the grocery store.

Open to Natural Sciences Freshman with a declared major or on the Natural Sciences Exploratory Track.