Sociology 316TC - Foodies: Taste/Global Society

While food offers sustenance for the body, it also plays a fundamental role in shaping social life. This course uses food as a lens to understand identity, inequality, globalization, and other issues central to the contemporary social world. We will explore topics such as how food is used to construct identity, how food reproduces inequality, and how food may contribute to or diminish global boundaries.

Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors