PrintQuick Facts about Food and the Future Environment
Instructor: Suraiya Parvin, Department of Geography
Email: svp6104@psu.edu
Office hours: By appointment via Zoom. (Please email the instructor to set up a time)
Teaching Assistant: Norman Ornelas Jr.
Email: nxo7@psu.edu
Course Structure
The course is offered fully online. The course content is broken into 12 interactive lessons with formative and summative assessments that are all available online.
Overview
The Future of Food is an introductory-level science course that emphasizes the challenges facing food systems in the 21st century, and issues of sustainability for agriculture and other food production activities as well as the challenges posed by food insecurity and modern diets to human health and well-being. For Penn State students, GEOG 3 is an integrative studies, inter-domain general education course. Students who started at Penn State prior to summer 2018 can apply these credits to either GS or GN.
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Want to join us? Students who register for this Penn State course gain access to assignments and instructor feedback and earn academic credit. Official course descriptions and curricular details can be reviewed in the University Bulletin.