Graduate Students

Graduate and Professional School Courses

Browse graduate-level offerings in food and agriculture for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Programs & Courses in the Graduate and Professional Schools

Every year, courses in food and agriculture are offered across professional schools, notably the School of Public Health (EPH), the Law School (YLS), and the School of the Environment (YSE). Courses in nutrition and epidemiology at EPH, human rights and food policy at YLS, and industrial ecology and environmental policy at YSE offer practical tools and applied case-studies with which to understand food systems problems. Entrepreneurial students will consult the course selection offerings at each school at the beginning of each semester — many graduate programs allow and encourage cross-school enrollment — but you can also follow our newsletter for updates on which courses are offered.

The Yale Sustainable Food Program also supports visiting faculty members at professional schools and graduate student efforts to bolster food- and agriculture-related curricula. Through the Yale Food System Symposium, graduate students put on a full-fledged conference to bring some of the best minds in food and agriculture to campus for engaged conversation. The YSFP has supported graduate student-led initiatives to bring visiting scholars to campus, like Olivier De Schutter, who taught two courses at Yale Law School in Fall 2016, including “The Legal and Political Economy of Hunger.”

Graduate students will also find a wealth of research opportunities and events through initiatives at the Law, Ethics, and Animals Program, a multidisciplinary think-and-do dedicated to the deep questions of conscience and law that human-animal relationships and industrialized animal cruelty raise.

Finally, the Agrarian Studies Colloquium offers a vibrant series of speakers through their weekly meeting, which is open to all.  

Graduate Student Interest Groups

Food SIG - Yale School of the Environment

Food SIG is the hub of food and agriculture at F&ES. In addition to hosting hands-on workshops (kombucha, anyone?) and field trips (kabocha, anyone?), Food SIG helps run the Yale Food Systems Symposium (YFSS) and advocates for food-based scholarship through course offerings at F&ES.

Food, Agribusiness, and Beverage Club

The Food, Agribusiness, and Beverage Club is the School of Management’s student interest group around food and agricultural topics.

Yale Food Law Society

The Yale Food Law Society is the food interest group of the Yale Law School. Affectionately dubbed “FoodSoc,” the group has hosted speakers doing interesting legal work at the intersection of food, law, environment, and economic development, at all levels of government, and from the vantages of policy, litigation, communications, and legal clinic. FoodSoc also offers a social space for shared interest in food and agriculture, which has included trips to local orchards, and a combination-whiskey-tasting-and-introduction-to-administrative-law event.