Food and the Future Environment

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Module 1 Roadmap

Detailed instructions for completing the Summative Assessment will be provided in each module.

Module 1 Roadmap
Action Assignment Location
To Read
  1. Materials on the course website.
  2. Sage, Colin. "Introduction: Why environment and food?" pp. 1-8, Chapter 1 in Environment and Food. London and New York: Routledge.
  3. Public Radio International: Despite Economic Gains, Peru's Asparagus Boom Threatening Water Table. (Module 1.2)
  1. You are on the course website now.
  2. Available on e-reserves and here as a PDF: Chapter 1 in Environment and Food.
  3. Online: Despite Economic Gains, Peru's Asparagus Boom Threatening Water Table. Note: You will listen to this only if you select to analyze the Peruvian asparagus export sector, as a food system example in the Summative Assessment.
To Do
  1. Formative Assessment: Environment and Food Issues
  2. Summative Assessment: Concept Mapping and Assessment of Food Systems
  3. Participate in the Discussion
  4. Take Module Quiz
  1. In course content: Formative Assessment; then submit in Canvas
  2. In course content: Summative Assessment; then take the quiz in Canvas
  3. In Canvas
  4. In Canvas

Questions?

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If you have any questions, please send them through Canvas e-mail. We will check daily to respond. If your question is one that is relevant to the entire class, we may respond to the entire class rather than individually.

If you prefer to use the discussion forums:

If you have any questions, please post them to the discussion forum in Canvas. We will check that discussion forum daily to respond. While you are there, feel free to post your own responses if you, too, are able to help out a classmate.