New Concepts in Agroecology: A Service-Learning Course.

- orative efforts to implement such transformations. t oward this end, we have integrated methods from systems thinking, soft- systems methodology, and agroecosystems analysis, and used a service-learning component to provide students with an op - portunity to apply and evaluate these methods in practice. Most students favorably evaluated the course. Ultimately, we expect that the course will help our students to develop a civic profes - sionalism through which they apply their professional skills to complex public problems in agriculture.

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