HIST 3400 Intro to Global Food Studies

This course provides students with the knowledge and skill to examine the role, and importance, of food in historical and contemporary settings. Using a global perspective, this class examines the complex ways food has influenced human history. The class focuses on both the large-scale patterns as well as the more intimate ways that we experience food in our daily lives. Some of the major questions posed in this class are: How has food, or the lack of it, influenced human history? How is it produced and distributed? Who produces the food and who controls it? How can you use food to understand the changes in a society over time? How does food create meaning and identity? what is the impact of environment and weather on what we eat? How is culture influence or represented by foodways?

Credits Hours: 3