DELETED: Sociocultural aspects of eating (5cr)
Code: C-10088-TL00CC81-3006
General information
- Enrollment
- 05.08.2024 - 10.03.2025
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 17.03.2025 - 30.05.2025
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Institution
- University of Eastern Finland
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 0 - 999
- Course
- C-10088-TL00CC81
Evaluation scale
Pass/Fail
Objective
The student can explain how food and eating reflect social interaction, society and culture. The student can explain how food is part of identity. Student learns critical thinking.
Methods of completion
Assignments are online. Lecture (2 h) offered at campus and online.
Methods of completion
Online recordings, online assignments done as individual work and group work. Assignments are submitted according to a schedule. Assignments are evaluated.
Content
Food as part of culture. Perceptions, beliefs and norms related to food. Sociocultural factors (eg. age, sex, religion, food accessibility, income, regional differences, urban vs. rural, culture, global effects) that affect eating. Vegetarian, planetary, and sustainable diets as examples of sociocultural effects. Food and identity.
Materials
Online recordings and other material distributed in Moodle.
Qualifications
Basics of Nutrition.