UIUC offers many classes for students interested in sustainable agriculture. If you are a faculty member and would like to add a class or a more detailed description of one of the classes already of the list, please e-mail mmcewen2@uiuc.edu.

NRES 104: Intro to Env Social Science

This class offers UIUC undergraduates an opportunity to study how local, UIUC connected CSA’s use sustainable and humane practices to produce competitive, usually organic, food and communities. Every spring semester, since 2003, it connects more than sixty UIUC NRES students to the local Common Ground and Fruited Plain CSA communities through lectures; group discussions and ethnographic field visits. Based on these learning strategies, students consistently experience local CSA’s as places of participatory production and a viable, ecologically responsible, alternative to the consumption and command driven models of industrialized food production and trade.

CHLH 199: Champaign Food Systems

This class explores the local food system from top to bottom -- where the food comes from, how much it costs, who buys what from whom. With field trips, guest lectures and self-directed learning, students experience first-hand the role local food can play in the system. This is a service learning course and each student provides 30 hours in service to the CU community food system during the semester.

TSM 311: Humanity in the Food Web

The human food web is the complex network of technologies, environments, people, and social institutions that produces, processes, and distributes the world's food supply. Students will study the food webs of the past, present, and future and will explore various human roles, including their own, in the global technology-environment-society-food system. Course topics include domestication, mechanization, urbanization, the green revolution, biotechnology, food safety, the environment, and appropriate technologies for developing countries.

ACE 398: Food Law

An introduction to the legal and political dimensions of food law, policy and trade. Examines current issues in food regulation including biotechnology, organics, fair trade, health labeling claims, obesity litigation, food safety, "veggie libel" and products liability litigation. Discusses food regulation in other countries within the context of international treaties such as the World Trade Organization, United Nations and Codex Alimentarius.