Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy

Explores relationships between health, nutrition, and education using interdisciplinary frameworks to understand child wellbeing and policy impacts on educational settings.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Mary Michaud3.8/5

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Use historical, theoretical and analytical frameworks to describe relationships between nutrition, education and health in childhood.

  • Describe ways educational environments can support holistic child health and development.

  • Explore the history and current funding of school food programs in the U.S.

  • Evaluate other national educational food programs and compare them to those in the U.S.

  • Identify credible evidence to support policy approaches to improve child health and learning.

  • Demonstrate key skills in critical thinking, communication, collaboration, field observation skills, and qualitative analysis.

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EDPOL 417

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Spring 2027

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Explore the relationships between health, nutrition and education. Use theory and conceptual frameworks from a range of disciplines (e.g., public and population health, political science, economics, sociology, nutritional sciences, etc.) to understand complex factors that influence wellbeing in children. Highlight distinct views regarding food/nutrition insecurity as a public problem and explore the ways policy affects children's health in educational settings. Investigate the roles educational institutions and commercial actors play in defining and implementing food system and other policies that impact health. Practice communicating clearly about these complex issues.

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Topics

  • Food and nutrition insecurity as a public problem and policy effects on children's health.
  • Roles of educational institutions and commercial actors in defining and implementing food system policies.
  • History and current funding of U.S. school food programs.
  • Evaluation and comparison of national educational food programs with U.S. programs.

Skills

  • Using historical, theoretical, and analytical frameworks to describe relationships between nutrition, education, and health.
  • Identifying credible evidence to support policy approaches for improving child health and learning.
  • Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, field observation, and qualitative analysis.

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EDPOL 417 · Spring 2027

Health, Nutrition, and Education Policy

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