Sustainable Food Systems (B.S.)

Sample Courses

In addition to classes, free elective credit can be applied to a number of options such as Directed Experiential Education (DEE), internship, minor or study abroad. You are encouraged to contact an advisor before scheduling free elective credits.

Slow Food, Not Fast Food

Food movement leaders from across the US, Canada and beyond convened at JWU’s Denver Campus for Slow Food Nations’ Slow Food Leader Summit.

Agenda topics ranged from the ethics of meat eating to initiatives to support equity in the food chain and to ensure that farmers’ voices are heard.

Participants included such outspoken advocates as:

• Massimo Bottura, Osteria Francescana and Food for Soul
• Raj Patel, research professor and author, “Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System”
• Chef Ann Cooper, Boulder Valley School District director of food services

Since its founding in 1989, Slow Food’s mission to encourage public engagement around good, clean and fair food has grown into a global movement.

The “slow food” movement aligns with JWU’s Changing the Way the World Eats campaign, a public awareness effort to encourage healthy eating and to emphasize the university’s influence on the world’s food decisions, industry choices, and overall health and well-being.

In his opening remarks, JWU Denver College of Culinary Arts Dean Jorge de la Torre said, “I am grateful to be surrounded by such talented people in the food industry dedicated to positive world change.”

Did You Know?

• By 2020, 65% of all jobs in the economy will require postsecondary education and training beyond high school.
• There will be 55 million job openings in the economy through 2020: 24 million openings from newly created jobs and 31 million openings due to baby boomer retirements.

_{Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce at CEW.georgetown.edu (visited April 15, 2019)}