uva food courses - fall 2020
Course Code |
Course Name |
Professor |
Description |
ANTH 3240 |
The Anthropology of Food |
Kasey Jernigan |
By exploring food and eating in relationships to such topics as taboo, sexuality, bodies, ritual, kinship, beauty, and temperance and excess, this course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat--or don't eat--hold meaning for people within multiple cultural contexts. |
COLA 1500 |
Food and Culture |
Lisa Shutt |
Food is much more than a biological need for human beings. People are meaning-makers, inseparable from the cultural frameworks in which they find themselves enmeshed. What we eat, the way we eat, and whether or not we prepare or provide food for others is every bit as much symbolic as it is rooted in biological survival. We create self identity, claim ethnic and national affiliation and affirm our maleness and femaleness with the foods we purchase, prepare, select or order from a menu. This course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat—or don’t eat—hold meaning for people within multiple cultural contexts. We will explore perspectives on food from a selection of disciplines represented in the College of Arts and Sciences, touching on the differences between the methodologies, research topics and histories of different disciplines. |
ENWR 1520 |
Writing about Food Equity |
Kate Stephenson |
No Description. |
EVSC 1080 |
Resources and the Environment |
James Galloway |
Explores the impact of people on the environment in the past and present with projections for the future. Addresses the phenomena and effects of food and energy production and industrial processes, including such topics as lead pollution, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, and the disposal of radioactive waste. Demonstrates how the environment works in the absence of humans and discusses how human use of resources perturbs the environment. |
INST 2550 |
Garden Party |
Matthew Grason |
This short course will introduce students to the major concepts used in growing herbs, flowers, and vegetables organically in a small and cooperative garden context. The class will learn and apply their skills in the Hereford College Farm Garden, working with fellow students to manage and grow crops to harvest for themselves and Hereford residents. This course will focus on low-tech, biological gardening strategies that aim to improve the soil ecosystem and soil health as the primary driver of plant health and growth -- without the use of fertilizers and pesticides -- drawing on the methods promoted by John Jeavons (Grow Biointensive), Eliot Coleman, Bill Mollison (permaculture), Patryk Battle (no-till gardening), and Elaine Ingham (Soil Food Web; biological farming). Concepts covered in the class will include garden planning, seed starting, soil media and amendments, garden and soil preparation, seedling transplanting, mulching, watering and irrigation, season extension, attracting pollinators, managing pests and weeds, cover cropping, composting, and seed saving. |
KINE 3400 |
Nutrition |
Sibylle Kranz |
Studies the basic principles of nutrition, including psychosocial-cultural considerations in dietary intake. Focuses on nutrient sources and actions, digestion, special population needs, weight control, food faddism, international problems, nutrition education, and nutrition-related disorders. |
KINE 3420 |
Contemporary Health Issues |
David Edwards |
Discussion of major topics in public health, including chronic diseases, such as child and adult obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, cardiovascular disease, muscle and bone diseases, and mental illness. There is a strong emphasis on fitness, nutrition, and other lifestyle choices to modify disease risk. Eating disorders and athlete medical issues are also discussed. |
KINE 5485 |
Life Cycle Nutrition |
Sibylle Kranz |
This course is focused on the changing nutrition needs and eating behaviors during three distinct phases of the life cycle: (1) women during the preconception period and pregnancy, children's infancy, and childhood (0-21 years old), (2) adulthood, and (3) Nutrition of the elderly population. For each of these phases, we will study the biological basis of energy, nutrient, and water needs and selected methods of health assessment. |
PHS 3620 |
Built Environment & Public Health: Local to Global |
Schaeffer Somers |
How do sidewalks, block parties, food deserts, and transit systems impact our health? This course maps the intersections between architecture, urban planning, and public health that shape the built environment, health and well being of our local and global communities. Lectures and learning applications will present the evidence and its limits on topics such as food security, age-friendly cities, obesity, social equity and vulnerable populations. |
study aborad courses
Course Code |
Course Name |
Professor |
Description |
COMM 4569 |
Kerrie Carfango & Brad Brown |
“Sustainability” implies both environmental and societal goals and actions. Some global issues are being addressed through multinational cooperation, but governments, businesses, and civil society are tackling many issues locally. This course, in Denmark in May, examines programs being undertaken by local leaders to address problems in their communities. Denmark is a world leader in wind turbine technology, but also has a very competitive agricultural sector of its economy. Danes are very conscious of sustainable industries and reducing their carbon footprints. Our days will be a blend of discussions and guest lectures, with many field trips to progressive corporations, social enterprises, NGO offices, historic sites, etc. Much of our transportation in Copenhagen will be by bicycle, so confidence in riding a bike is important. |
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Program by SIT/ World Learning |
SIT/World Learning |
Study the social impacts of climate change through the political economy of food, water, and energy in some of the world's most productive and vulnerable landscapes. |
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Program by SIT/ World Learning |
SIT/World Learning |
Study how the dynamics of food production, distribution, and provisioning are affected by population growth, rapid urbanization, and globalization, and which responses offer the most promise for sustainable food futures at local, national, and global levels. |
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Program by SIT/ World Learning |
SIT/World Learning |
No Description. |
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LPPS 5500 |
Spencer Phillips & Ngo Thi Minh Huong |
Applied Policy Field Study looks at one of the world’s most rapidly growing countries through the lens of ecological economics. We will focus on whether and how relationships between human and natural systems produce outcomes that are sustainable, just, and efficient. Through field visits, experiential learning/citizen science, and interaction with policy, development and environmental practitioners, students will see these relationships in all their complexity and use problem-based learning to gain skills in evidence-based policy analysis. |
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PLAN 5500 |
Ellen Bassett & Fatmah Behbehani |
This program is purposefully designed to fully engage students in contemporary sustainable development efforts taken in Morocco. Participants will engage with different actors involved in Morocco’s sustainable development initiatives including NGO employees, policy makers, researchers, field specialists, entrepreneurs and students. Topics include urban development projects (new towns and affordable housing developments), renewable energy plants, the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project, the 2016 sustainable tourism charter, cultural preservation efforts, social entrepreneurism and other projects that demonstrate Morocco’s commitment to sustainable development. Site visits and meetings with local professionals will be supported by readings, assignments, and discussions lead by co-instructors (UVA faculty), local subject matter experts and instructors at a local cooperating institution. Visits are planned with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other development agencies, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), historic preservation organizations, and more. |
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STS 3500, STS 5500, GSGS 3120, or ECSC 3559 |
Kent Wayland, Eric Anderson, Aaron Mills, Jessica Ohana González, and David R. Burt |
Discussion of major topics in public health, including chronic diseases, such as child and adult obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, cardiovascular disease, muscle and bone diseases, and mental illness. There is a strong emphasis on fitness, nutrition, and other lifestyle choices to modify disease risk. Eating disorders and athlete medical issues are also discussed. |
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GSGS 3250 |
Yossef Ben-Meir & Ingrid Hakala |
This 8-week hybrid internship-study abroad program offers the unique opportunity to pair academic learning about global approaches to community development with an actual experience of work in this professional field, all within the fascinating national context of Morocco. In their internships with the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) students will have the chance to develop first-hand understandings of the participatory approach to development by cultivating skills (as facilitators and participants) in its methods, within both the classroom and community settings, and by documenting its practice. In the course of the program, students will be exposed to a range of themes relating to development through the work of the HAF, including women's empowerment, conflict management, environmental conservation, cooperative-driven entrepreneurism, migration, and more. This opportunity is particularly relevant for, but not limited to, students interested in environments and sustainability, women’s studies, global culture and commerce, security and justice, public health, and development studies. |