PLANNING FOR FOOD SYSTEMS AND MARKETPLACES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and understand specific [planning] practice impacts with respect to the food system, over time and across space. Audience: Graduate 2. Explain the purpose and meaning of food system activities/planning. Audience: Graduate 3. Outline the behaviors and structures available to bring about sound food system outcomes. Audience: Graduate 4. Describe the legal and organizational contexts of food systems. Audience: Graduate 5. Assemble, analyze, and synthesize ideas and information from practice and scholarship, and from primary and secondary sources, related to food systems. Audience: Graduate 6. Comprehend the importance of history and the connection between people and organization in the context of food systems. Audience: Graduate 7. Describe the basic structures and activities of food system organizations. Audience: Graduate 8. Prepare standard written and graphic communication modalities for use in documents and presentations. Audience: Graduate 9. Apply knowledge of [planning] theory and interactionist theory in particular. Audience: Graduate 10. Create and implement food system plans or activities, including their own approach to leadership, organizational analysis, and strategic behavior. Audience: Graduate 11. Apply values and ethics used in professional planning and democratic society, incorporating issues of diversity and social justice through case examples. Audience: Graduate 12. Evaluate ethical questions of public decision-making, research, and client representation, governance and participation, sustainability and environmental quality, and growth and development from the different roles of elected officials, stakeholders, and community members. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and understand specific [planning] practice impacts with respect to the food system, over time and across space. Audience: Graduate 2. Explain the purpose and meaning of food system activities/planning. Audience: Graduate 3. Outline the behaviors and structures available to bring about sound food system outcomes. Audience: Graduate 4. Describe the legal and organizational contexts of food systems. Audience: Graduate 5. Assemble, analyze, and synthesize ideas and information from practice and scholarship, and from primary and secondary sources, related to food systems. Audience: Graduate 6. Comprehend the importance of history and the connection between people and organization in the context of food systems. Audience: Graduate 7. Describe the basic structures and activities of food system organizations. Audience: Graduate 8. Prepare standard written and graphic communication modalities for use in documents and presentations. Audience: Graduate 9. Apply knowledge of [planning] theory and interactionist theory in particular. Audience: Graduate 10. Create and implement food system plans or activities, including their own approach to leadership, organizational analysis, and strategic behavior. Audience: Graduate 11. Apply values and ethics used in professional planning and democratic society, incorporating issues of diversity and social justice through case examples. Audience: Graduate 12. Evaluate ethical questions of public decision-making, research, and client representation, governance and participation, sustainability and environmental quality, and growth and development from the different roles of elected officials, stakeholders, and community members. Audience: Graduate