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Apr 03, 2026
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AG 251 - Agroecology
Observe How Living Organisms Maintain Perfect Orderliness in Their Physical Environment
Credits: 4
Delivery mode: On-Campus and Online
This course fulfillsthe BAAS Critical and Creative Thinking Seminar (CCTS) requirement.
In this course, we will seek to clarify our understanding of agroecology and distinguish it from other approaches to sustainable agriculture, such as permaculture and biodynamic agriculture. Agroecology is a systems-based approach that explicitly centers social justice, political economy, and ecological sustainability within food and agricultural systems. It emphasizes food system transformation through the integration of scientific knowledge with the deeply rooted and constitutive knowledge of peasants, Indigenous peoples, and local communities. In this sense, agroecology can be understood as an alternative paradigm to the dominant industrial and corporate-led model of conventional agriculture. While the course is primarily theoretical in orientation, selected practical dimensions of agroecological production will also be examined.
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