Cluster
9 (CL9) Food for Thought: Engaging the Citizen in the Science and Politics of Food Information, Food Consumerism, Nutrition and Health
Karin Peterson , Cluster Co-Coordinator (kpeterson@unca.edu)
Sally Wasileski, Cluster Co-Coordinator (swasiles@unca.edu)
Food
for Thought focuses on developing the student as an informed consumer
of food by providing a platform for discussion of what we eat, why we
eat, where our food comes from and its journey from production to consumption,
and how food affects our bodies and health. Natural science courses
will explore the physical, chemical and biological aspects of food during
storage, preparation and consumption, how it gives our bodies energy
and how it affects health. Social science courses will explore the economic,
social, cultural, and political issues of food production, distribution,
preparation, and consumption as swell as relationships between food
and disease. By exploring these aspects of food through several semesters
of their undergraduate career, students will develop broad and interdisciplinary
insight on a key resource for humans.
This
cluster now has its own web page -- check it out at:
http://www.unca.edu/foodforthought/
ILSN Courses
BIOL 110 Plants and Humans (Clarke)
BIOL 335 Biology of the Seed Plants (Clarke)
CHEM 174 Live, Learn and Eat: The Food of Chemistry (Wasileski)
ILSS Courses
ECON 245 Land Economics (Mathews)
HWP 225
Nutrition and Lifestyle (Lanou)
HWP 325 Pathophysiology of Chronic Conditions and
Illnesses (Lanou)
HWP 373 Food Politics and Nutrition Policy: How Government and Industry
Impact Health (Lanou)
SOC 280 Sociology of Gender (Peterson)
SOC 385 Science and Technology (Peterson)
