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Instructor: Sabrina Weiss
5-10 students
Suggested Age Ranges: 13+, Parent/Student pairs/groups welcome!
Dates/Times will be set in mid to late November - if you are interested, please email Sabrina.
Courrse Description
Food is a universal human experience: everybody eats. Food is a way for us to connect across generations, locations, and societies. But every culture and community prepares, serves, and values food in different ways. By studying and discussing food, we can understand much about people, their values, and their traditions.
This course will explore food as a human experience, as tradition, as healthy/unhealthy, as a way that societies promote or undermine justice. We will connect food to personal values, historical events, ethics about animals and the environment, and laws and policies. This will be a “college-style,” discussion-focused course. Students will be expected to read a book about food during the term and do a project related to the course topic by the end of the course.
Topic Sections:
Part 1: Culture of Food
Part 2: Un/Healthy Food?
Part 3: Ethics and Justice of Food
Resources:
Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends Erin McKenna
The Botany of Desire Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
Food Politics Marion Nestle
History of Bees in America Tammy Horn
The Violence of the Green Revolution Vandana Shiva
Milk: A Local and Global History Deborah Valenze
The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America Heather Paxson
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(sign up for 1, 2, or all 3 parts)