GDEV 7500

Food, Ecology, and Agrarian Change

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This seminar is concerned with agri-food systems and their socio-ecological relations. There is increased attention and public discourse on agriculture and food systems, and its increasingly evident health and ecological implications. This seminar works with social science analytical approaches and contemporary issues and processes concerning food, ecology and agrarian change from development studies, sociology, geography, anthropology and related disciplines. The goal of the seminar is to develop analytical perspectives on the relationships embedded in food and agrarian systems and their political, social and ecological implications, and to explore various alternatives to the dominant mode of agriculture and agrarian relations.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024SP, 2021SP, 2019SP, 2017SP

Learning Outcomes

• Explain key social science concepts and theories related to food and agrarian systems.
• Analyze food and agrarian systems using a range of theoretical perspectives, including political ecology, critical development studies, critical agrarian studies, agroecology and feminist theories.
• Articulate key issues in debates in food, agriculture and agrarian studies and provide their own well-reasoned evaluations of these topics using theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence from the social and natural sciences.

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