Current Issues in Food Studies

COM HLT M217 - Current Issues in Food Studies

<p>(Same as Community Health Sciences M217.) Seminar, three hours. Limited to Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program students. Food is complex subject given that production, procurement, preparation, consumption, and exchange of edible matter is biologically vital to human growth, development, and function and critical to many aspects of society and culture. Food studies is growing cross-disciplinary field of research, teaching, and advocacy that encompasses and draws from cultural anthropology and geography, food law and policy, urban planning, sociology, literature, history, public health, nutrition, environmental science, molecular and cell biology, science and technology studies (STS), agronomy, and other disciplines. Survey of some of these wide-ranging topics and disciplines that define food studies. Letter grading.</p>

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Current Issues in Food Studies

URBN PL M216

4 units