A team of students, faculty members, division chairpersons and administrators at Mendocino College developed a set of knowledge, skill and attitude goals for an interdisciplinary program around the theme of the "World Food Crisis." Once the broad goals had been set, a team representing the social sciences, natural sciences, and agriculture revised the course outlines for all courses in the required core program. A curriculum guide which considered the coordination issues of timing, sequence and context was developed. The "World Food Crisis" program received the support of the Carnegie Foundation supported Change in Liberal Arts Education Project. It was aimed at the liberal arts student seeking a broad understanding of contemporary social issues. The students who participated were older, on the average, than the traditional student at Mendocino. Many of them were actively involved in "back-to-earth" movements. The program proved as cost-beneficial as the rest of the college's activity in terms of weekly student and faculty contact hours. Pretest and posttest measures of personal growth in a "value-added" measurement revealed that program students made significant gains. Descriptions of the curriculum and copies of evaluation instruments are included. (KB)