The Food Studies program at The New School draws on a range of disciplines to explore the connections between food and the environment, politics, history, and culture. Our faculty of culinary historians, policy activists, entrepreneurs, and scientists provide students with the theoretical and practical tools they need to engage in then burgeoning conversation on food production, distribution, quality, and taste, and to effect positive change in their own food environments.

Courses and workshops offered this Fall

American Culinary History: From the Erie Canal to the Food Network
Begins September 2
Course number NFDS 2101
15 Sessions. Wednesdays, 6:00-7:50 p.m.

A History of American Farming and Agricultural Production
Begins August 31.
Course number NFDS 3101
15 Sessions. Mondays, 6:00-7:50 p.m.

Food and Power in the United States
Begins September 1
Course number NFDS 3200
15 Sessions. Tuesdays, 6:00-7:50 p.m.

Urban Agriculture
Begins September 3
Course number NFDS 3720
15 Sessions. Thursdays, 6:00-7:50 p.m.

Food Environments, Health, and Social Justice
August 31 thru December 18
Course number NFDS 3220
15 Weeks ONLINE

How to Write a Winning Business Plan
One-Day Course
Course number NFDS 0353
Saturday, October 17, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Launching and Marketing Your Food Product
One-Day Course
Course number NFDS 0350
Saturday, October 24, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Join us for the next Food Studies Food Writing Forum: Judith Jones

November 10, 2009 6:30 p.m
The senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf reads from her new book "The Pleasures of Cooking for One".

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Continuing Education

Choose from hundreds of courses, many of which can be taken for credit or non-credit, online and on-campus. Other continuing education courses are offered at Parsons The New School for Design and Mannes College The New School for Music.

Degree Programs

Degree programs offered include a bachelor's degree in a largely self-designed liberal arts program, master's degrees in Media Studies, Creative Writing, International Affairs, and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), and professional-level training certificates in a variety of fields.

View a comprehensive list of degree programs offered at the University .