MSFOOD - Transformative Food Systems

Food systems have a unique and complex capacity to leverage transformative social change. The Master of Arts in Transformative Food Systems is a leading-edge response to the planet's urgent challenges, acknowledging a need for change that engages multiple systems and modalities. In a vibrant experiential online learning environment, supporting peer learning and sense of place as an asset, students acquire a comprehensive understanding of food from a systems perspective. history, critique, diverse ways of knowing, and local-to-global context inform analyses and the development of strategies that value relationships as strategic opportunities to guide the emergence of a conscious and regenerative food system.

Emphasizing food systems as a complex adaptive system, providing the knowledge, skills, and support to influence transformative change across sectors and systems, the curriculum aspires to create new leaders in the movements to establish food justice, create inclusive regional economies, address climate change, and support policy reform, health and wellbeing, and regenerative, agroecological approaches to the environment. The program is designed to be completed in one year (full time) or two years (part time). All students complete a final Capstone project which can be a practicum, professionalization portfolio, a creative project, an applied research project or a thesis document.