Spring 2027

Introduction to Organic Agriculture: Production, Markets, and Policy

Introduction to Organic Agriculture covers the history, production, processing, marketing, and social dimensions of organic systems, along with their impacts on environmental, community, and human health.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Tom Bryan

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.74 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.57 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.65 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the history of current organic systems and how it influences the way that organic farms and industries work.

  • Explore the biological, ecological, and agricultural underpinnings of organic production systems.

  • Examine how organic systems, social initiatives, and regulations are developed and how they shape business activities, community development efforts, and human and environmental health outcomes.

  • Evaluate the benefits and limitations of organic systems, social initiatives, and regulations from environmental, social, economic, and racial justice perspectives.

  • Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach.

  • Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of organic farming and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.

  • Develop the capacity to evaluate sustainability and resilience outcomes of organic and other agricultural production and processing systems using interdisciplinary methods.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3

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Prerequisites

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ENVIR ST/​AGROECOL/​C&E SOC/​ENTOM 103(or AGRONOMY 103 prior to Fall 2025), AGRONOMY 100, HORT 120,PLANTSCI 110,BOTANY/​PL PATH 123,SOC/​C&E SOC 222, or graduate/professional standing

AAE/PLANTSCI/PLPATH 367

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.74 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.57 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.65 GPA, 78.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

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Topics

  • History of organic agriculture and current organic systems.
  • Production, processing, marketing, and biological/ecological underpinnings of organic systems.
  • Social dimensions, regulations, community development, and health outcomes.
  • Benefits, limitations, tradeoffs, and justice perspectives in organic farming.

Skills

  • Systems-based analysis of sustainability issues and evaluation of sustainability and resilience outcomes using interdisciplinary methods.

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AAE/PLANTSCI/PLPATH 367 · Spring 2027

Introduction to Organic Agriculture: Production, Markets, and Policy

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AAE/PLANTSCI/PLPATH 367 · Spring 2027

Introduction to Organic Agriculture: Production, Markets, and Policy

Recorded 2026-10-14
AAE/PLANTSCI/PLPATH 367 · Spring 2027

Introduction to Organic Agriculture: Production, Markets, and Policy

Recorded 2026-10-14
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