Spring 2027

Planning for Food Systems and Marketplaces

Plans and improves US metropolitan markets and food systems, covering public markets, community food security, urban agriculture, and public health impacts.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Alfonso Morales3.6/5

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2015: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe and understand specific [planning] practice impacts with respect to the food system, over time and across space.

  • Explain the purpose and meaning of food system activities/planning.

  • Outline the behaviors and structures available to bring about sound food system outcomes.

  • Describe the legal and organizational contexts of food systems.

  • Assemble, analyze, and synthesize ideas and information from practice and scholarship, and from primary and secondary sources, related to food systems.

  • Comprehend the importance of history and the connection between people and organization in the context of food systems.

  • Describe the basic structures and activities of food system organizations.

  • Prepare standard written and graphic communication modalities for use in documents and presentations.

  • Apply knowledge of [planning] theory and interactionist theory in particular.

  • Create and implement food system plans or activities, including their own approach to leadership, organizational analysis, and strategic behavior.

  • Apply values and ethics used in professional planning and democratic society, incorporating issues of diversity and social justice through case examples.

  • 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.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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URBRPL 711

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Raw average: 3.33/5 from 6 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2015: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ALFONSO MORALES is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2022, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2015: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Public markets, community food security, urban agriculture, and public health impacts.
  • Quality improvement of US metropolitan markets and food systems.

Skills

  • Analyzing planning practice impacts on food systems over time and space.
  • Synthesizing ideas and information from primary and secondary sources.
  • Preparing written and graphic communications for documents and presentations.
  • Creating and implementing food system plans and activities.

Grades

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URBRPL 711 · Spring 2027

Planning for Food Systems and Marketplaces

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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