Food Politics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course will focus on the politics of food production, technology, and consumption. Topics covered will include how, when, and why we legislate about food in the United States, the role we play in international food politics (including trade, international aid, differences in regulations abroad), public opinion about food and politics, a history of food politics, the politics of diets, gender politics of food, food science and politics, politics of food advertising, and the food politics of poverty.