This is a three-unit asynchronous online nutrition course that examines the regional, ethnic, cultural, religious, historical and social influences on food patterns and cuisine.
Over the ten-week length of the course, students will study cultural food and nutrition principles related to the following topics:
Food as identity and food in social organization
Evolutionary and revolutionary developments in food and cuisine
Food as spectacle
Food technology in non-industrialized and industrialized food systems
Food and health: political inputs and obesity
Food branding and marketing
Food in world religions
Global hunger: root causes and proposed solutions
Hunger in America and food and social change
Other Credits: 3 units in Biology. BRN 27 CE hrs. BRN board does not award partial credit.
Course Number: BIOL-40274
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
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3/25/2024 - 6/14/2024
$395
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.
Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDFood and Culture 8th
by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau and SeAnne Safaii-Waite
ISBN / ASIN: 9780357729588
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 3/29/2024.
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3/25/2024 - 6/14/2024
extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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6/24/2024 - 9/14/2024
$395
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.
Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.
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TEXTBOOKS:
No information available at this time.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 6/28/2024.
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6/24/2024 - 9/14/2024
extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Healthcare & Behavioral Sciences department at 858-534-9262 or unexhealthcare@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.