Environmental Studies students are curious, feisty, and action-oriented. Though the number of environmental problems can be daunting, students are motivated to bring about positive, lasting change through dedicated commitment to the issues that most interest them. The practical, hands-on skills that students learn in EVST often result in tangible results in Missoula, Montana, but more importantly, these skills are adaptable and transferrable, allowing students to apply their knowledge and expertise to environmental issues within their home communities when they graduate.The Environmental Studies Program seeks to provide students with the literacy, skills, and commitment needed to foster a healthy natural environment and to create a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world. To these ends, the Environmental Studies Program educates and challenges students to become knowledgeable, motivated and engaged in environmental affairs. Our students acquire the skills and awareness to promote positive social change and improve the environment and communities of Montana and the world, for current and future generations.<br><br>The study of food systems lends itself beautifully to true interdisciplinary learning and problem solving. It also has the capacity to profoundly connect us with nature and the place we live. Students will discover our food system's complexity and vulnerability, and they will be able to ask informed questions. Students often learn a lot about the serious environmental problems confronting society, but they hunger for the opportunity to do something about it, something tangible and real. Accordingly, the Sustainable Food and Farming emphasis will give them the tools to do so. Educated, our graduates will be more to able to exercise the privileges of citizenship, more able to care. Sustainable Food and Farming provides students with the opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary study of food systems, hands-on experience growing organic food for low-income people on an urban farm, community-based action research, and active civic engagement.