As someone who eats, you’re a part of the food system – the entire set of actions that get food from farms to plates. Each step of the food system faces a number of challenges around environmental sustainability, public health, local, regional, and national economies, social justice, and more. If you’d like to work toward making a more sustainable, safer, and more equitable food system, a degree in Food and Ecology from Lake Superior State is a good place to start. The degree provides a strong foundation in Biology along with specialty areas in food production, policy, communications, or analytics. You’ll also complete an internship with one of several organizations that work in the food systems area and you’ll complete a senior research project. This strong combination of concepts and hands-on experiences will help prepare you for a career in agro-ecology, food policy, advocacy, and other areas of sustainable food systems work.
Biology students at LSSU benefit from a low student to faculty ratio. Most upper level classes have less than 30 students and laboratory sections are often limited to less than 15 students. This affords the faculty time to interact individually with students, ensuring they have the opportunity to apply the laboratory and field skills required of professional scientists.
Whether you’re interested in ecology, human biology, plant science, animal science, microbiology, genetics, physiology, natural resource biology, cell or molecular biology, field work or laboratory work – LSSU is a great place to study biology. Our program offers a number of unique opportunities for undergraduate students, including hands-on training in state of the art equipment, both in the field and in the lab. You can choose from one of the four biology concentrations: Animal Biology, Food and Ecology, Pre-Medical, or Pre-Veterinary – or you can choose to major in biology without any concentration at all. All biology students complete a senior thesis project which teaches you both research and communication skills. This experience will help you in finding a job or gaining admittance to the graduate school of your choice.
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