Sunday, July 12, 2009

Ryerson University Offers Free Online Course About Urban Agriculture!

Thank you to City Farmer for originally posting about this on their blog!

Ryerson University and the RUAF are offering free distance course online about urban agriculture. Here is an outline of the programming:


Distance Learning on Urban Agriculture (UA)

Course 1 - Understanding UA


Module 1 - The Concept of Urban Agriculture


Module 2 - Building Blocks of Urban Agriculture


Module 3 - Types of urban agriculture


Module 4 - Direct and indirect stakeholders in UA


Module 5 - Dimensions of UA: Benefits and functions


Module 6 - Dimensions of UA: Problems and risks


Module 7 - Constraints and opportunities facing UA


Module 8 - History and trends I


Module 9 - History and trends II


Module 10 - Analyzing urban agriculture I


Module 11 - Analyzing urban agriculture II


Module 12 - Supporting urban agriculture I


Module 13 - Supporting urban agriculture II


Module 14 - Exam

Course 2 - Dimensions of UA


Module 1 - The Multiple Dimensions of UA


Module 2 - Food Security and Nutrition Dimensions


Module 3 - Management of Health Risks


Module 4 - Environmental Dimensions of UA - Part A


Module 5 - Environmental Dimensions of UA - Part B


Module 6 - Gender Dimensions of Urban Agriculture


Module 7 - Social inclusion, community building &..


Module 8 - Economic Dimensions of Urban Agriculture


Module 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture


Module 10 - Urban Agriculture for Resilient Cities


Module 11 - UA, (multifunctional) land use planning


Module 12 - Assessing the Multiple Dimensions of UA


Module 13 - Bringing all of the Dimensions together


Module 14 - Final Exam

This course is also available with a tutor for a fee. Info about this can be found here.

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