Advanced Research Seminar: Food and Society
SOC 399E
Spring 2016
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| Course Cluster: Health Studies |
This advanced research seminar is open to sociology majors in their senior year or in the second semester of their junior year, and fulfills the capstone requirement for the major. This course is divided into two halves. In the first half, we survey a variety of food-related topics that may include food and identity (class, ethnicity, nation, gender); food systems (the global, national, and local intersections of production and consumption); food politics, policy formation, and activism. This overview will serve as a foundation for the second half of the course, in which students develop a substantial research paper, with class sessions focused on project-related reading, work-in-progress discussions, and final presentations. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: SOC151 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(FGSS)(SOC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings may include:
Ferguson, TALKING ABOUT FOOD
Bank Munoz, TRANSNATIONAL TORTILLAS
Belasco and Horwitz, FOOD CHAINS
Gray, LABOR AND THE LOCAVORE
Julier, "THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OBESITY"
Bourdieu, DISTINCTIONS
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Examinations and Assignments:
Reading response papers, individual and/or group presentations, research paper |
| Instructor(s): Clawson,Mary Ann Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC104; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 9 | JR major: 6 | | |
| Seats Available: 8 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: X |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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