SOC 268 - You Are What You Eat: Food in Society

5 CR

Where does your food come from? Why, when, and where do you eat what you do? Critically analyze the social history of food production and consumption in the U.S. over time. Themes may include the global nature of food production, understanding diet and nutrition from a cultural perspective, and how race, ethnicity, class, gender, and family impact and are impacted by food.

Course Outcomes

Describe how the production and consumption of food is fundamentally a social process that reflects and produces inequalities between people.
Critically analyze some of the contemporary social and political controversies about food.
Discuss the relationships between social power, group identities, and access to food.

GenEd Outcomes: Creative and Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

GenEd Outcomes: Connections

Cultural Diversity

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