Minor Requirements & Courses

�þ�� pursuing the Food Studies Minor will complete 20 credit hours of foundational and elective courses. At least eight credit hours should come from 3000/4000 level pre-approved food-related courses.

The minor requires four credit hours from each of the following categories:

Nutrition, Food, and its Components (sciences)
- CHM 1310 Culinary Transformations: The Science Behind What’s Cooking*
- ESS 1110 Introduction to Exercise Science
- ESS 3123 Nutrition and Bioenergetics*#
- PEH 3240 Nutrition*#
- PHS 3020 Global Health
- WHE 2300 Perspectives in Health Promotion: Foundations to Function
- WHE 2850 Perspectives in Personal and Global Health
Sustainable Food Systems and Production (social sciences)
- ENS 3110 Sustainable Food Production*#
- ENS 3140 Agroecology#
- PST 3200 Food Policy
- ENS 1210 Community Agriculture – Spring Planting
- ENS 2200 Garden Studio: Fall & Winter Gardening or ENS 2210 Garden Studio: Spring & Summer Gardening
- ENS 2320 Solar Greenhouse and Fourth Season Harvest
- ENS 3210 Urban Ecology#
Food, Culture, and Representation (arts & humanities)
- IDS 2040 Edible Ideologies: Food, Power, and Identity*
- IDS 2010 Food, Gender, and Power – The Hunger Games Trilogy
- COM 3370 Health Communications
- FRE 3012 French Cuisine and Culture
- SPN 4540 Eating Through the Pages: Food in Contemporary Texts#
- HEB 3010 Falafel Nation
- COR 3180 The World in Your Cup: An Interdisciplinary Look at Coffee

* highly recommended; # has a prerequisite

In addition, students will complete eight credit hours of elective courses during their second, third or fourth year. �þ�� will choose their two electives from courses in any of the three above categories. That said, any elective course can potentially come from pre-approved food-related, study abroad/away, credit bearing internship and �þ�� research courses.

With approval of the program coordinator, up to 12 credit hours of study abroad courses may count for the minor.

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