LIBS 351: Critical Food Studies

Course Description

This course is about revealing the powerful ways that food shapes our lives. Food is rapidly becoming a focal point for pedagogy and research because it lies at the nexus, and intersects multiple disciplines. It is essential to life and our health is heavily reliant upon adequate nutrition. The production and distribution of food is also deeply political and under strain from economic and social forces. This course uses a holistic approach to better investigate the complex ways that food impacts our lives and how food insecurity contributes to income, social, and political inequality in the US. (W).