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HLTH 235 Food Systems Units: 3.00
This course introduces contemporary issues in the dominant food system and the ways in which food production, distribution and consumption produce and reproduce relations of power.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 72 Private Study)
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the main features of the dominant industrial food system, traditional Indigenous food systems, and alternative food systems including agroecology.
- Identify and describe contemporary debates related to food systems.
- Appreciate the social, cultural, spiritual, symbolic, political, and ethical dimensions of food and eating.
- Recognize food consumption, production, and distribution as sites of injustice and oppression, as well as resistance, change, and hope.
- Use sociological concepts and theories to connect the everyday, personal act of eating to larger social and political structures, including race, class, gender, culture, capitalism, and globalization.
- Apply university-level critical thinking and writing skills to analyze food systems.