Spring 2027

Animal Agriculture and Global Sustainable Development

Examines global agriculture and sustainable development through regional crop and livestock case studies, focusing on food security, trade, environmental impacts, and dairy's role in health.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.81 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.74 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.56 GPA, 70.8% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply sustainability principles and/or framework to addressing the challenge of feeding an increasing world population sustainably.

  • Define and characterize sustainability, sustainable agriculture and Sustainable Development

  • Analyze the contributions of animal agriculture to the Sustainable Development Goals both in developing and developed countries.

  • Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of diverse animal agricultural systems both in developing and developed countries.

  • Evaluate the role of livestock in communities where poverty, hunger and marginalization are embedded as a way of life.

  • Critically evaluate the causes of —and ways to break— the chains of hunger and poverty among the poorest of the poor.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3 UW Guide 4

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ANSCI/DYSCI/FOODSCI/SOILSCI 472

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.81 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.74 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.56 GPA, 70.8% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Population, food security, immigration, and environmental impacts.
  • Crop and livestock production, global trade, and sustainability.
  • Role of women in agriculture and dairy products' contribution to a healthy diet.

Skills

  • Apply sustainability principles and frameworks to global food challenges.
  • Define and characterize sustainability, sustainable agriculture, and Sustainable Development.
  • Analyze animal agriculture's contributions to Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Explain social, economic, and environmental dimensions of agricultural sustainability challenges.

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