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SSHIS-2000-2: Food as Culture

Summer 2021

Subject: Social Science and History
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: Online
Level: Undergraduate

Course Dates: June 21, 2021 — August 13, 2021
Meetings: Mon/Wed 5:00-07:00PM, Online - HS-1
Instructor: Michael Hunter

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 5/17 Closed

Description:

In addition to being necessary for survival, food plays a key role in a number of interdependent systems: water, transportation, politics, economics, labor, gender, and aesthetics, among others. This course uses selected readings, films, class discussions, presentations, and field trips to examine how we produce, distribute, consume, and dispose of food. The Bay Area is an important site of convergence for these systems, particularly the rapidly gentrifying East Bay, which has become both a haven and a battleground for food policy. Together we consider food as a constructor of contemporary culture, spaces, systems, and identity. The course concludes with a conceptual group meal that will allow each student to explore and present their particular perspective on food as culture.

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