SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2025
SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 3613W is also offered in Summer 2023
SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2023
SOC 3613W is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2014 | SOC 3613W Section 001: Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating (26007)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
GLOS 3613V Section 001
GLOS 3613W Section 001
SOC 3613V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 220
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Food issues from a sociological perspective. Cross-cultural differences in how groups/societies think about and relate to food.
- Class Description:
- Hamburgers and a Coke, rice and beans, collard greens, wonton soup, creme brulee ? What meanings and feelings do these foods conjure up, and for whom? Where are their key ingredients produced? Who prepares these dishes, and who eats them? This course is built on two key premises: first, that the production, distribution, and consumption of food involves relationships among different groups of people, and second, that one can gain great insights into these social relations and the societies in which they are embedded through a sociological analysis of food. Among the themes this course will explore are the different cultural and social meanings attached to food; class and diet; food, culture and body image; the industrialization of agriculture; the global food economy; the debate over genetically modified food; and movements toward a more sustainable agriculture. The general objective of this course is to teach you how to view the world of food and agriculture from a sociological perspective. A more specific objective is to get you to think analytically about something that is so ?everyday? that most of us take it for granted: where our food comes from, why we eat the way (and what) we do, and the kind of social relationships involved in our encounters with food. Students can expect to read between 40-70 pages a week (of interesting reading!), produce one short paper and one longer (12-15 page) research paper on a course-related topic, and participate in several out-of-classroom exercises (which will include some write-up) during the course of the semester. The course is heavily discussion based, and active participation is required.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26007/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 April 2014
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