We are pleased to announce for Spring 2012, the inaugural “University Course” at Duke, hosted by Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
Open university-wide to ALL undergraduate, graduate, and professional students
Taught by professors across the university
Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Why, What, and How We Eat
DOCST 190.05 / WOMENST 150.01 / CULANTH 180.08
CZ, SS, CCI, EI
Convened by Laurie Patton, Dean of Arts and Sciences
Co-Professors: Kathy Rudy (Associate Professor of Women’s Studies) & Charles D. Thompson (Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology, Adjunct Professor of Religion, and Curriculum and Education Director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University)
Tuesdays, 4:25 – 7:00 pm
Westbrook 0014
Dinner will be served. The evening fare will exemplify specific themes and subjects of the course (in conjunction with Duke Meal plans).
This innovative University Course will bring together faculty and students from different disciplines and different schools at Duke to explore an issue of common concern. In this first “pilot” course we will focus on Food Studies.
Some of the questions this course will explore include, where does industrial food come from? Why is it so inadequate? Who sells it to us, and what is their stake in the growth and manufacturing? What kinds of farming practices have changed over the last half-century and why? What cultural processes have shaped the planting, harvesting, cooking, packaging, shipping, advertising, selling, and buying of our food? What do these shifts mean for us humans, for farmers, for farm workers, for farm animals, and for the greater environment? What is the role of chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones), genetic modifications, and cloning in this new world of food? Can we really produce enough food without them?
We hope you join us in a critical examination of food, from production to consumption.
Special Instructions for Graduate and Professional Students who wish to enroll
Professional students will enroll in the University Course by registering for an independent study with a faculty contributor from their professional school. Please contact the appropriate contact person for your school to register.
Graduate students in Arts & Sciences and the Sanford School of Public Policy should contact to register.
Contributors include:
Laurie Patton
Lee D. Baker
Dean of Academic Affairs of Trinity College, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Larry Moneta
Vice President
Student Affairs
Franca Alphin
Director of Nutrition Services (Student Health), Assistant Professor (Dept of Community and Family Medicine), and adjunct faculty (Health, Wellness, and Physical Education)
Student Affairs
Dennis Clements
Associate Professor (Peds), Director (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies), Division of Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics
Duke Children's Primary Care, Duke Global Health Institute, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Charlotte Clark
Lecturer in Sustainability Economics
Nicholas School of the Environment
Gavan Fitzsimons
R. David Thomas Professor of Marketing and Psychology
Fuqua School of Business
Claudia Gunsch
Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pratt School of Engineering
Jedediah Purdy
Professor of Law
School of Law
Norman Wirzba
Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life
Duke Divinity School