Senior Sequence Research Proposal (USP 186) : Introduces students to the theory and practice of social research including the challenges of writing a scholarly research proposal. Students are required to complete one hundred hours of an internship experience while critically examining the relations between social science and society.

Senior Sequence Capstone Research Project (USP 187): An intensive research, internship, and writing experience that culminates in an original senior research project. Students learn about the theoretical, ethical, and technical challenges of scholarly research and publication. Prerequisites: USP 186.

Examine science communication as a profession and unique form of storytelling. Identify who does science communication, how, why, and with what impacts. Highlight science communication’s role in democracy, power, public reason, technological trajectories, the sustainability transition, and shifting university-community relations.

Examine food justice from multiple analytical and theoretical perspectives: race, class, diversity, equity, legal-institutional, business, ethical, ecological, scientific, cultural, and socio-technical. Compare political strategies of food justice organizations/movements aimed at creating healthy and sustainable food systems locally and globally.