Courses

Featured Courses

CHS 48: Nutrition & Food Studies: Principles & Practice (5 units)

Offered Session A (June 25-Aug. 3) AND Session C (Aug. 6-Sept. 14)

This course examines and applies basic science concepts of nutrition to student lives and real-world issues through lectures, diet analysis, activities, reports, discussion of video and reading assignments, and reviews of community programs that apply nutrition and behavior theory to improve public health. It describes components of diets and food sources and their roles in maintaining body health and explores social, cultural, behavioral, and environmental causes of chronic disease.

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CHS 131: Healthy Food Access in Los Angeles: The History and Practice in Urban Agriculture  (4 units)

Spring Quarter, Hands-On Gardening Workshops Complemented with guest lectures, Meeting Time TBA

This course examines the history and recent revival of urban food gardening in Los Angeles to better understand how many current urban agriculture initiatives are a response to the increased presence of obesity, food deserts, and food insecurity in urban areas. We will hear from various advocacy organizations that are working to provide their communities with access to healthy and affordable food that is grown locally and sustainably. Finally, we will consider the future of urban agriculture and whether it has the potential to aid in solving many of our current health, environmental, and food security concerns by participating in weekly, hands-on gardening workshops and demonstrations.

Want to take your interest in food and nutrition to the next level? Take a look at the featured programs and classes below. Get the info here and register through MyUCLA.

Food Studies Programs at UCLA and beyond

  • Explore UCLA’s undergraduate Food Studies Minor for undergraduate students. Students must complete 6 courses and a capstone project. Visit their website to learn more about the requirements, course offerings, and application process.
  • UCLA’s Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program is open to all graduate students. Students must complete 4 courses, including the Food Studies Colloquium offered in the Spring Quarter. Visit their website to see the full list of course offerings and learn how to apply.
  • If you’re looking for something beyond UCLA’s Food Studies Minor or Graduate Certificate, check out our extensive list of Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate programs around the country that focus on food studies.

Courses

Title
Number
Department
Schedule
Instructor
School
Description
Pod
Flyer
Food Security URBN PL 216Urban PlanningT/TH 3:15-5:20PM
Summer Session A
Luskin School of Public AffairsIn this course we will analyze the concept of food security from multiple
perspectives. This will include a close examination of the causes, consequences,
and responses to food insecurity at a global, national, and state/local level.
Through this analysis, students will gain an understanding of how these
different perspectives frame the ways in which we understand and portray food
security and how this understanding shapes approaches to intervention and
policy.
Food Studies Graduate Certificate ColoquiumURBN PL 216Urban PlanningT 2:00-4:00PM
Spring 2018
Tomiyama, A.J.,
Roberts, M
Luskin School of Public AffairsFood is a complex subject given that the production, procurement, preparation, consumption and exchange of edible matter is at once biologically vital to human growth, development and function and critical to many aspects of society and culture. Food studies is a growing cross-disciplinary field of research, teaching and advocacy that encompasses a wide range of topics. This colloquium will survey some of these wide ranging topics and disciplines that define food studies. EatWell
Food: A Lens for Environment and SustainabilityM1CWGE ClusterMWF 10-10:50am
Fall 2017
D'Auria, R.
Jay, J.A.
Nodby, J.C.
L&SFood as lens for local and global environmental and sustainability issues. Integration of environmental, social, economic, and technological solutions for fair, sustainable, and healthy food production, food security, and access. Focus on human impacts on Earth's biological and physical systems, including how food production and consumption contributes to, and is impacted by, global problems, including climate change, pollution, and overpopulation.EatWell
Nutrition48Community Health SciencesOnline
Fall 2017
Leader, J.K
Pang, M.L.
School of Public HealthOverview of nutritional sciences and public health nutrition. Examination of basic science concepts of nutrition and application of them to student lives and real-world issues through lectures, diet analysis, activities, reports, discussion of video and reading assignments, and reviews of community programs that apply nutrition and behavior theory to improve health of public. Description of components of diets and food sources, including proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals and their roles in maintaining body health. Exploration of aspects of social, cultural, behavioral, and environmental causes of chronic disease.EatWell
Health, Disease, and Health Services in Latin America132Community Health SciencesT 9-11:50am
Fall 2017
Taub, B.School of Public HealthIntroduction to health, disease, and health services in Latin America, with emphasis on epidemiology, health administration, medical anthropology, and nutrition.EatWell
Healthy Food Access in Los Angeles: The History and Practice in Urban Agriculture 131Community Health SciencesM W 1-2:50pm
Spring 2018
O'Connell, M.School of Public HealthThis course examines the history and recent revival of urban food gardening with examples from the Los Angeles area. We will contextualize the recent surge in urban gardening by examining its beginnings during the Progressive Era, later with the Victory Garden Movement (VGM) during World Wars I and II, and will contrast that with the rise of industrial agriculture during the second half of the Twentieth Century. We will explore how many current urban agriculture initiatives are a response to rising obesity rates across the country and the prevalence of food deserts and food insecurity in urban areas. We will hear from various advocacy organizations that are working to provide their communities with access to healthy and affordable food that is grown locally and sustainably. Finally, we will consider the future of urban agriculture and whether it has the potential to aid in solving many of our current health, environmental, and food security concerns.EatWell
Food and Health in Global Perspective134Society and GeneticsMW 9:30-10:45
Fall 2017
Kim, M.K.L&SEatWell
Obesity, Physical Activity, and Nutrition SeminarM234Community Health SciencesR 2-4:50pm
Fall 2017
Mccarthy, W.J.School of Public HealthDesigned for graduate students. Multidisciplinary introduction at graduate level to epidemiology, physiology, and current state of preventive and therapeutic interventions for obesity in adults and children, including public health policy approaches to healthy nutrition and physical activity promotion.EatWell
Ocean and Coastal Law Policy615LawT 5:30-7:30
Fall 2017
Hecht, S.B.Law SchoolEatWell
Got Spam? Making of a Good Food System269Urban PlanningW 2-4:50
Fall 2017
Daniels, P.Luskin School of Public AffairsStudy of ways to build community-centric values into food system. Such values are designed to improve public health, support environmentally sound agriculture production, and promote economic well-being for producers and workers all through food chain.EatWellFlyer
Food and Environment132GeographyT 1-3:50
Fall 2017
Carney, J.A.L&SThematic orientation to food systems and their role in environmental and cultural transformations.EatWell