Food and Asian Americans credit:

3 Hours

Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of food to better understand the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Asian American food preparation, distribution and consumption. Students will investigate the politics and poetics of Asian American foodways by examining social habits, and rituals around food in restaurants, ethnic cookbooks, fictional works, memoirs, magazines, and television shows. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci Cultural Studies - US Minority