Distance education course and certificate in Sustainable Local Food.
St. Lawrence College is pleased to announce a new distance education certificate program in Sustainable Local Food for All Canadians which will be launched with a first course on January 9th, 2009 (course registration open until Jan 16):
Field to Fork: Introduction to Local and Global Food Systems
The text of the program description will be available online after Jan 6.
This course and certificate program are designed to meet the rising interest in, and need for, "how to" training for local food system development that is sustainable, socially just, economically dynamic and ecologically specific to the countrysides, cities and regions of Canada . The curriculum is being developed in collaboration with food and farm related organizations who have expertise to share, training needs to be addressed, and positions to be filled.
Courses have a practical orientation and include problem-based and experience-based learning components. The focus is on how to change the food systems in the communities we live in. There is a particular emphasis on the challenges, lessons and successes from regions across Canada and beyond, with plenty of reading and discussion of models, concepts and ideas as participants analyze and compare problems over time and space and debate solutions relevant to specific communities, ecologies and economies.
Please spread the word about this exciting, affordable, distance education opportunity through your networks. And do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like to be involved in curriculum development for future courses.
Sincerely,
Andrew McCann
Coordinator
Sustainable Local Food for All Canadians
613-767-4127
amccann [at] sl.on.ca
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