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Dec 08, 2025
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ANSOC 275 - Food, People, & Place
Prerequisites: no prerequisites
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills an elective credit for Anthroplogy + Sociology (ANSOC) majors, minors, and core. Fulfills an elective for Food Studies minor.
Delivery: Lecture
This course introduces the sociology of food, examining how food practices shape and are shaped by social structures, institutions, and cultural norms. Students will explore the relationships between food, identity, power, and inequality in local and global contexts. Key topics include the social organization of food production and consumption, food and identity, food access, the role of food in social movements, and the impacts of globalization on food systems. The course also delves into how food practices reflect broader issues related to class, ethnicity, and gender. Through academic readings, films, class discussions, and a final project, students will develop a sociological lens to analyze the social world of food.
3 credits
Spring
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