FDST 2050: The Impact of Food on World History and Culture

New Class: Coming Spring 2023

It is impossible to understand a culture’s complete history without studying its food. This course will provide an examination of the complex relationship between food and cultures. Specifically, how people have produced, prepared, and preserved food and its effects on cultures, national and international politics, social interactions, economics, and the environment.

Course Objectives:

Describe the impact of food production and the migration of food and food preservation practices through history from local cultures to multicultural environments.

Describe how food has impacted art and how art documents eating habits and food preservation through history from prehistoric cave art to modern marketing.

Explain how food supply, culinary traditions, and food processing has impacted human cultural exchange, health, politics, urbanization, the environment, and legal systems.

Discuss how the evolution of food technology has impacted our food choices and culture.

Explain the permeation of food terms across languages.

Analyze the symmetry between access to safe and abundant food and the abundance and complexity of cultural outputs.

Instructors:

Faith Critzer Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator

Food Science & Technology

fcritzer@uga.edu 706-542-1088

Maria Navarro Professor

Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication

mnavarro@uga.edu 706-542-8913

Ronald Pegg Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor

Food Science & Technology

rpegg@uga.edu 706-542-1099

Course Details:

Offered: Spring 2023

Time: MWF 9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

CRN: 63784

Location: Chemistry Building 430

Athena Title: Food in History and Culture

This 3-credit course satisfies the General Education Core Curriculum Area IV requirement for “World Languages and Global Culture”.

Limited seating - Be sure to register for this class ASAP!