Global Food Cultures: Los Angeles

(3 Credits)

This course explores food systems and culture in the broader Southern California region, unpacking how issues of race, socioeconomic status, gender, and ethnicity intertwine with geography, politics, and economics to create the present-day global metropole facing a myriad of issues including climate change. Through guest lectures, student projects, and site visits to museums, markets, farms, cooperatives and restaurants, students gain a multi-faceted understanding and appreciation of this remarkable city and its people.