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HWC 325 - Food Justice I: Advocacy Practice for Food Rights


This course offers students an introduction and explanation of food systems, food policy, and rights frameworks, and the relation of each to food justice. Students will explore concepts such as food insecurity (and its measurement and costs), the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Right to Food, food security, food justice, and food sovereignty in order to develop a critical assessment of the food system, food policies, and hunger relief programs of the U.S., with a focus on social work advocacy and policy practice towards food justice.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Undergraduate School of Social Welfare Program



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