FYSP 105 - Food, Health, and Culture

FC SSCI

4 credits
This class will examine the connections between food and understandings of health in its cultural and social contexts. What do people mean when they call food “healthy?” Where did American ideas about body size and health come from? How does nutritional science shape popular understandings of healthy eating? What is food justice? We will read studies by anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and nutritionists that attempt to answer these questions. At the same time, students will research topics of interest to them on the subject of food and nutritional health.