FOODWAYS
Explores artistic, social, sensory, and spiritual expressions through food that convey personal, group, and place-based identities, ethnicity, gender, and class in work and play. Reviews range of food writing and scholarly perspectives including culinary historical, structural-functional, and performance.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and apply important concepts in folklore studies. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe a range of culinary cultures and food-related folklore. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Connect personal experience with the course material. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize history's impact on the present. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Conduct folkloristic research and analyze foodways traditions. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and apply important concepts in folklore studies. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe a range of culinary cultures and food-related folklore. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Connect personal experience with the course material. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize history's impact on the present. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Conduct folkloristic research and analyze foodways traditions. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027