Course Info: NS-0233
| Course | NS-0233 Anthro of Food & Nutrition |
| Long Title | Anthropology of Food and Nutrition |
| Term | 2016F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Cole Science Center 316 on M,W from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Alan Goodman |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 1 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Quantitative Skills Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | In this course students are generally expected to spend at least 6 to 8 hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | Are we what we eat? We eat foods for social and cultural reasons, and we eat foods because they contain nutrients that fuel our cells and allow us to function -- grow, think, and live. The quest for food is a major evolutionary theme and continues to profoundly shape ecological, social, and human biological systems. In this course we explored many of the ways that food and nutrition relate to the human condition, including: (1) symbolic meanings of food, (2) the evolution of food systems to genetically modified foods, (3) the deadly synergy of malnutrition and infection, (4) the ecological and political-economic causes of undernutrition and obesity, and (5) "nutritional epidemiology," the role of diet and nutrition in the etiology of diverse diseases. In addition to course particulation, students completed short response pieces, a dietary assessment, wrote a paper on a food from a social science perspective and completed a final paper and presentation on a nutritional problem and/or solution. |