SOC 309 - Sociology of Food

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: Spring - Odd

An holistic introduction to the global food system and food production, distribution, and consumption, this course will examine the economic, political, social, and symbolic dimensions of food in society. This course will also explore the social determinants of hunger, malnutrition, and obesity and individual and cultural relationships to food on the basis of differences such as race and ethnicity, class, gender, and religion.