ClassInfo - Fall 2024 Asian :26 Middle Eastern Studies Classes

Fall 2024 | AMES 3920 Section 001: Topics in Asian Culture -- Of Rice, Ramen, and Roti: Food in Asia (33130)

Instructor(s): Suvadip Sinha
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:: 9 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Class Attributes:: Online Course
Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024

Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM

UMTC, East Bank

Nicholson Hall 120
Enrollment Status:: Open (3 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2024
Fall 2023
Fall 2022

Course Catalog Description:: Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:: We all buy, cook, eat, and taste food. While food has caused violent wars, countries colonized, people enslaved, it also has profound capacity to preserve memories, sustain communities, establish cultural identities, and forge alliances. Yet, most of us seldom pay attention to these complex histories and journeys our food has gone through and continues to reveal, and we are rarely conscious of how deeply food and politics are entangled. Addressing this gap, this class primarily enables students to critically engage with food as a commodity and a historical document and provoke them not to think of food as a banal and flat entity. Focusing on different food-related products and popular dishes from several countries and regions in Asia, this class further teaches students to analyze food's unique presence in literary and cultural texts across ages. Students are required to engage with historical documents/essays, recipe books, literary texts, and a few visual materials to learn in what ways issues like nationalism, (anti)racism, human rights, politics of gender, and environmental sustainability are deeply connected with every bite they take.
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