Cultural Foods
BIOL-40274
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
Course Information
Course sessions
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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.
Textbooks:
Food and Culture 7th
by Kittler, Sucher, Nelms
ISBN / ASIN: 9780357688335
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 9/27/2024
Schedule:
Instructor:
Katie Ferraro
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.
Section ID:
Class type:
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.
Textbooks:
Food and Culture 8th
by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau and SeAnne Safaii-Waite
ISBN / ASIN: 9780357729588
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 1/9/2025
Schedule:
Instructor:
Katie Ferraro
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.
