The Rise and Future of the Food Movement

The course was co-instructed by Nikki Henderson, Executive Director of People's Grocery, and Michael Pollan, a Knight Journalism Professor at UC Berkeley. In this course, each week lecturers representing a wide variety of disciplines explored what their particular area of expertise had to offer the food movement to help it define and achieve its goals. Students had the opportunity to volunteer for a food-related non-profit organization three hours a week throughout the semester, and to write a short reflective essay synthesizing what they learned through their volunteer work with what they learned from the lectures and readings.