Course Description
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Course Name
Culture: Themes in Anthropology I - Food
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Host University
Maynooth University
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Location
Dublin, Ireland
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Area of Study
Anthropology, Nutrition and Food Science
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Language Level
Taught In English
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Prerequisites
AN111 (except for Occasional students)
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Course Level Recommendations
Lower
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ECTS Credits
5 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits2
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units3
Hours & Credits
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Overview
This Course will not make you a better cook or a more accomplished food connoisseur. It won't serve as a guide for healthy eating either. To reduce food to mere nourishment and physical survival is to impoverish our human life to its bare animality. We all need to eat in order to survive, but food is more than that - in all societies. Food can be seen as a prime symbolic vehicle through which we construct our world, spin our subjectivity and mark boundaries between social classes, regions, nations, cultures, occupations, genders, etc. This is the mission of this Course.
Course Disclaimer
Courses and course hours of instruction are subject to change.
Credits earned vary according to the policies of the students' home institutions. According to ISA policy and possible visa requirements, students must maintain full-time enrollment status, as determined by their home institutions, for the duration of the program.
ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credits are converted to semester credits/quarter units differently among U.S. universities. Students should confirm the conversion scale used at their home university when determining credit transfer.
Please reference fall and spring course lists as not all courses are taught during both semesters.
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