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SOCI 4551

Food, Nutrition, Gender & Bodies

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2018

Topics

  • understanding about the relationships between food, health and bodies through our
  • science, and its’ sister discipline, public health nutrition, for its development of dietary guidance
  • (individual and collective or social) are created, maintained and resisted through these highly
  • question of ‘what to eat’ given our highly complex and dynamic food systems and the beliefs
  • that accompany these food systems about eating right in our contemporary society
  • Understand the relationship between food, nutrition, health and bodies
  • Appreciate the socio-historical development of nutrition science
  • Unpack the socio-cultural politics of dietary advice
  • Explore the moral responsibility embedded in citizenship to eat ‘right’
  • Learn facilitation and presentation skills
  • Learn university-level research, analytical and writing skills

Readings

  • Required: 1) Eating Right In America, 2013. by Charlotte Biltekoff (paperback )
  • Required: 2) Nutritionism, 2013, by Gyorgy Scrinis. (paperback ) *
  • Required: Department of Sociology
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