(4 units)
Instructor
COURSE GOALS: The course is intended to familiarize students with relationship between food and culture; relationship between food and the social order; influences on eating habits and the tensions between them including identity, convenience, and responsibility; multiple disciplines and genres.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture 3-hours, discussion 1-hour.
EXPLANATION OF POTENTIAL COURSE OVERLAP: Cross listed with AMS 55 Food in American Culture
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
- Introduction / What is Food?
- Identity: community & hierarchy, manners and rituals, gender and the family, ethnicity & authenticity, culinary tourism
- Convenience: making of the modern food system, meaning and power, social trends – product trends, processed food controversy, anxieties and scares
- Responsibility and the Future of Food: future of food, access & insecurity, labor, obesity, food waste, future of food debate