The Hunger Studies minor emphasizes causes, consequences and responses to hunger all while encouraging students from all disciplines to mobilize and act to solve hunger. Students will examine hunger as a complex issue of sustainable human development. Courses in the minor help students develop a skill set for global citizenship that includes opportunities for advocacy, research, community involvement, leadership, and critical problem solving. Students representing every discipline—from agriculture to marketing, from engineering to design—are welcome to apply their major studies in these cross-disciplinary classes that interactively study and discuss how to solve hunger. The Hunger Studies curriculum is also available online as an independent study format.

Programs of Study

Auburn University has developed one of the only Hunger Studies minors in the country. Students representing every discipline – from agriculture to marketing, from finance to design – are welcome to apply their major studies in cross-disciplinary classes that interactively study and discuss how to solve hunger. 
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The certificate includes six units of study, and upon successful completion students will receive a Hunger Awareness Certificate from Auburn University’s Office of Professional and Continuing Education.

Additional Information

Honors Interdisciplinary Exploration (HIE) is a new honors lyceum intending to bring together students and faculty from across Auburn University under the single umbrella of honors education. This is done through a topic-based structure, where every week students will either sit down for a discussion or travel to a field experience with a different instructor to learn about how one topic can be approached by several different fields. Guest professors will come from all of Auburn’s different colleges to provide a true interdisciplinary exploration of a topic. In light of Auburn’s historical relationship with agriculture and new campus initiatives related to food, the inaugural HIE topic will be Food. Students can expect to explore food from many different perspectives including engineering, agriculture, business, psychology, and literature.

Program Faculty

Alicia Powers, Ph.D.
Alicia Powers, Ph.D.
Managing Director
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