Food Systems, Justice, and Sustainability

Examines food as connecting people, ecologies, and cultures across global systems. Explores environmental impacts, nutrition, biodiversity, and social justice within food production, distribution, and consumption. Guides students to critically examine how food systems shape—and are shaped by—ecological and social processes. Effective Fall 2026, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.