FOOD ANTHROPOLOGY

Course Description

Food is of wide-ranging anthropological interest because, in eating, humans incorporate into our very bodies the products of nature transformed into culture. This course explores connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal identities formed via food production. Readings are organized around critical discussion of what makes "good" food good. Focus of the course is to provide students with theoretical, empirical tools to understand and evaluate food systems at local and global levels. Food tell us about larger social organizations and global interconnections through products like Spam that are traded around the globe.

FOOD ANTHROPOLOGY

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Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Own notes of the lecturer
2. 02 Food: A Culturel Culinary History / Kevin Albala

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 Students will be able to originate their traditions about food. SOLO 5
2. L02 Students will be able to visualize the domestication of plants and animals at early ages. SOLO 5
3. L03 Students will be able to compare the ways of sourcing and preparing food of mankind in the past and in the present. SOLO 4
4. L04 Students will be able to reason the rise of civilizations from Anatolia and Mesopotamia. SOLO 5
5. L05 Students will be able to explain the changes of the Industrial Revolution made to our kitchen and dining traditions. SOLO 3

Program Outcomes

1. P01 Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of key concepts across the breadth of effective application and use of MIS and innovative information technologies in organizations.
2. P02 Demonstrate autonomy and responsibility in managing MIS projects and improving organizational processes
3. P03 Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of appropriate enterprise frameworks, theories from the MIS to research and assess contemporary issues in the field and related allied fields and disciplines
4. P04 Apply MIS knowledge to facilitate the acquisition, development, deployment, and management of information systems
5. P05 Apply MIS knowledge to the exploitation of opportunities created by information technology innovations ensuring the alignment between MIS strategy and organizational strategy
6. P06 Demonstrate ethical reasoning in relation to crucial MIS issues such as privacy, information security, and ethical use of information
7. P07 Apply appropriate technologies and techniques to the collection and analysis of organizational and environmental data to facilitate evidence-based decision-making
8. P08 Analyse organizational data to accurately identify organizational problems and propose solutions using MIS
9. P09 Apply effective communication skills consistent with the professional environment
10. P10 Apply effective collaboration skills consistent with the professional environment

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