Hunger Studies Minor
The Hunger Studies minor emphasizes causes, consequences and responses to hunger all while encouraging students from all disciplines to mobilize and act to solve hunger. Students will examine hunger as a complex issue of sustainable human development. Courses in the minor help students develop a skill set for global citizenship that includes opportunities for advocacy, research, community involvement, leadership, and critical problem solving. Students representing every discipline—from agriculture to marketing, from engineering to design—are welcome to apply their major studies in these cross-disciplinary classes that interactively study and discuss how to solve hunger.
Required Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| HUSC 2000/2007 | Hunger: Causes, Consequences, and Responses | 3 |
| HUSC 4000 | Hunger Studies Capstone | 3 |
| Total Hours | 6 | |
(Select a minimum of 12 hours from the lists below; 9 hours must be at the 3000 level or higher.)
Knowledge
(must select at least one course)
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CSES 2000 | Basic Crop Science | 4 |
| ANSC 1000 | Introduction to Animal Sciences | 4 |
| ANSC 2010 | Animals and Society | 3 |
| CADS 2700 | Introduction to Nonprofit Organizations | 3 |
| ENGL 4040 | Public Writing | 3 |
| FISH 5210 | Principles of Aquaculture | 3 |
| FORY 5440 | International Forestry | 3 |
| HORT 2050 | Food for Thought | 3 |
| NTRI 2000 | Nutrition And Health | 3 |
| NTRI 3560 | Experimental Study of Foods | 4 |
| NTRI 3750 | Nutrition Education | 2 |
| NTRI 4620 | Public Health Nutrition | 3 |
| POLI 5370 | Nonprofit Management | 3 |
| RSOC 2090 | Food Systems: Policy, Production, and Practice | 3 |
Leadership and Advocacy
(must select at least one course)
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| AGRI 3800 | Agricultural Leadership Development | 2 |
| COMM 3450 | Intercultural Communication | 3 |
| HDFS 5300 | HDFS and Social Policy | 3 |
| PHIL 3100 | Ethical Theory | 3 |
| POLI 2100 | State Government and Policy | 3 |
| RSOC 5640 | Sociology of Community Development | 3 |
| RSOC 3620 | Community Organization | 3 |
| RSOC 5610 | Rural Sociology | 3 |
| RSOC 3560 | Environment, Society, and Justice | 3 |
| RSOC 5510 | Social Welfare, Family and Poverty | 3 |
Global Citizenship
(must select at least one course)
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 3000 | Culture, Marriage, and the Family | 3 |
| ANTH 3700 | Environmental Anthropology | 3 |
| CADS 2000/2007 | Global Consumer Culture | 3 |
| ECON 4300 | International Economics | 3 |
| GEOG 2010 | Human Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 5350 | Economic Geography | 3 |
| HDFS 4680 | Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| POLI 3090 | Introduction to International Relations | 3 |
| PSYC 3550 | Psychology and Culture | 3 |
| POLI 3140 | American Foreign Policy | 3 |
| POLI 3190 | International Relations of the Middle East | 3 |
| POLI 3560 | The Arab Spring | 3 |
| POLI 3610 | Asian Politics | 3 |
| GSHS 2000 | Global Studies Human Sciences | 3 |
| GSHS 3000 | Global Studies in Human Sciences Lecture Series | 1 |
To learn more about the Hunger Studies minor, contact Dr. Alicia Powers, Managing Director of the Hunger Solutions Institute, College of Human Sciences at arp0042@auburn.edu.