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- Choi, Sang Woon
- Coates, Jennifer
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- Das, Sai Krupa
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- Jacobsen, Karen
- Jacques, Paul F.
- Johnson, Elizabeth
- Kane, Kelly
- Kehayias, Joseph J.
- Kennedy, Eileen
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- Leavis, Paul
- Lichtenstein, Alice H.
- Liu, Zhenhua
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- Maxwell, Daniel
- Mazurana, Dyan
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- Meydani, Simin Nikbin
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- Must, Aviva
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- Russell, Robert M.
- Sacheck, Jennifer M.
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- Saltzman, Edward
- Scott, Tammy
- Selhub, Jacob
- Stites, Elizabeth
- Tang, Guangwen
- Taylor, Allen
- Tillotson, James E.
- Troen, Aron
- Tucker, Katherine L.
- Walker, Peter
- Wang, Xiang-Dong
- Wanke, Christine
- Webb, Patrick
- Wilde, Parke E.
- Wilder, Andrew
- Woods, Margo N.
- Wu, Dayong
- Yee, Amy
- Yeum, Kyung-Jin
- Young, Helen
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- Anderson, Molly
- Arthurs, Denise
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- Bloem, Martin W.
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- Carlson, Khristopher
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Urban and Environmental Planning / Agriculture, Food, and Environment
This program was developed for students in the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program who are interested in ways that food policy fits into broader areas of public policy, especially community development, and for students in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning who want to apply their policy skills to agricultural and food system issues. The program requires three years of full-time study (or the equivalent if taken part-time). On completion, the student earns a Master of Arts degree from UEP and a Master of Science degree from the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
Students must complete all course requirements of both degrees, plus a field internship and a thesis (as required by UEP). A minimum of 23 credits is required. This is 6 credits fewer than what would be required if the two degrees were pursued separately (15 for AFE and 14 for UEP). This is possible because certain courses can fulfill a requirement of each program. (For example, UEP's Environmental Policy Analysis fulfills UEP's Methods of Inquiry requirement and AFE's Environmental Policy requirement.) The thesis is supervised by a UEP faculty member and counts as two credits. (The thesis is also regarded as fulfilling AFE's Directed Study requirement.) All dual-degree candidates are assigned an academic advisor in each program.
Students interested in the combined degree must apply to both UEP and the Nutrition School, but may use the same application packet (e.g., only one set of transcripts and GRE scores). To be accepted in the combined degree program, the student must be accepted independently by UEP and the Nutrition School. A student already in one program who decides to pursue the combined degree must apply to the second program by the beginning of the third full-time semester of study.
