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INTG-414 Citizenship: Land, Food,
Sustainable Agriculture
Instructor: Craig Watson
Course Description
As the title suggests this course locates citizenship among human
relationships to land, food and agriculture. What makes for healthy
soil? Healthy plants and animals? Healthy food and healthy people?
Healthy environs? By what agricultural standards do we describe a
society that is languishing or flourishing? What are our opportunities
and obligations as tenants of the land and recipients of its bounty?
What might it mean to hold the land in trust . . . to imagine ourselves
as “custodians” and “stewards” of the land, for posterity’s sake? These
questions point beyond particular models of gardening and farming to
religious, philosophical, and political ideas about our being in the
world, ideas rooted in ancient cultures and persistent in modern
societies as well. Never before have these ideas and our attention to
them assumed such urgency, with such profound implications for survival
on the planet.
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