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Urban Re-Rural/Everybody Eats: Community Food Security and the Land Grant School
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| Project Leader: | Jose Avila jca_1891@email.tamu.edu Sociology |
| Faculty Mentor: | Sarah Gatson, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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Spring 2017: MW 12:30-2:00PM |
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Team Size:
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4 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Special opportunities for joining this team may include but are not limited to special topic presentations, work cited, professional networking, signing up for conferences, exploring ideas and concepts in the growing topic of sustainability, and becoming a full member for further studies. Students will develop and/or enhance their skills in research, project management, self-management, time management, computer literacy, statistical analysis, self-motivation, creative thinking, critical and analytical thinking, communication, and source gathering. The skills listed here are not limited and more may be gained depending on the efforts put forth by the student. |
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Team Needs:
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Creative and critical thinking skills are a plus but not required. Participants must register for SOCI 404: Everybody Eats, with Dr. Sarah Gatson. |
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Description:
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In today’s busy world there is a need for sustainability without compromise of time and money. For this project we will be analyzing what type of effects the concept of time has on food security and sustainability among communities. We will be analyzing the correlations between time, money, health, and food access for sustainable communities. As this is a very broad topic, we will be searching for data throughout various sources. Data may be gathered locally from surveying, observation, and from interpretation of national and/or global data sets. Data analysis and manipulation will play a critical role in this research as we will be creating visual representations for the interpretation of our findings. |