| Learning Objective | Activities | What My Sponsor Will Evaluate? |
| What are the processes of legally certifying a garden into a public-access community space? | The student will volunteer time with Fertile Grounds to gain an understanding of the process of turning a garden into a legal public-access community space and in addition will read case examples from Creating Sustainable Community Programs: Examples of Collaborative Public Administration by Mark Daniels.
The student will also the independent scholarly peer-reviewed articles: A Rights-Based Approach to Food Insecurity in the United States, Governing Networks in the Hollow State, and Governing the Hollow State.
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The owner of Fertile Grounds will write a paragraph summary of the experience working with the student. |
| What interdisciplinary symbolism of eating food can the student relate to the concept of sharing the experience to promote social cohesion? | “Place at the Table” Documentary
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen and Charles Wilson The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink by Carol Korsmeyer Chapters from Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters |
The student will show an interdisciplinary understanding of The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink and Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters by relating concepts learned to class material in the format of one 800 word essay a week. The student will repeat the process for the second half of the program with An Indigenous People’s History of the U.S. and The Good Food Revolution : Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities. |
| How has racism and prejudice in the U.S. been used as a tool to divide members of the working class? | An Indigenous People’s History of the U.S.
A People’s History of the United States – Chapter: 22 – 33 pages 2 hours with notes and reflections Chapter 15 – Self Help in Hard Times 30 pages 1.5 hours with notes and reflections |