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CORE 477 - Food Matters: The Politics and Pleasures of Food and Drink


Prerequisites: Fulfill the CORE.101 requirement - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
Fulfill the CORE.102 requirement - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
Fulfill the CORE.103 requirement - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
Fulfill the CORE.104 requirement - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
Fulfill the CORE.105 requirement - Must be completed prior to taking this course.
Requirement Fulfillment: N/A
Delivery: Other
Food fulfills the basic human need of sustaining life. Each aspect of food-its production, distribution, preparation and consumption-plays a role in defining who we are and how we relate to our planet and the creatures that share it with us. Food traditions across the world define our identity, connect families, support economies and
depend on a healthy planet for a sustainable life. This course explores how food makes us as  we make it. The study of food will help us to begin to develop our own ethics of eating and drinking by looking at its effect on our health, various cultural and ethnic identities, and its effect on the environment. And, of course, we will explore how food
and drink are also capable of giving us great pleasure! Food Matters explores our multifaceted and sometimes conflicted relationship with food and drink. As a subject often “to the side” of traditional academia (although this is changing), food avoids the strictures of traditional disciplines, cutting across ethical, symbolic, aesthetic, scientific and
economic categories. Study the global food system through particular topics such as the ethics of eating animals, whether food is a human right, how we are manipulated by foodcorp orations, as well if agricultural subsidies are just and fair….and, what is taste
anyway?
Course
  Minimum Passing Grade: D- Repeatable for credit: no

3 credits



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