This is a three-unit asynchronous online nutrition course that examines the regional, ethnic, cultural, religious, historical and social influences on food patterns and cuisine.
Over the ten-week length of the course, students will study cultural food and nutrition principles related to the following topics:
Food as identity and food in social organization
Evolutionary and revolutionary developments in food and cuisine
Food as spectacle
Food technology in non-industrialized and industrialized food systems
Food and health: political inputs and obesity
Food branding and marketing
Food in world religions
Global hunger: root causes and proposed solutions
Hunger in America and food and social change
Other Credits: 3 units in Biology. BRN 27 CE hrs. BRN board does not award partial credit.
Course Number: BIOL-40274
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
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9/23/2019 - 12/14/2019
$375
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online, Web-based instruction
Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.
Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDFood and Culture 7th
by Kittler, Sucher, Nelms
ISBN / ASIN: 9781305628052
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 9/30/2019.
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9/23/2019 - 12/14/2019
ucsdextension.blackboard.com
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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1/6/2020 - 3/21/2020
$375
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online, Web-based instruction
Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.
Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDFood and Culture 7th
by Kittler, Sucher, Nelms
ISBN / ASIN: 9781305628052
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 1/10/2020.
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1/6/2020 - 3/21/2020
ucsdextension.blackboard.com
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Healthcare & Behavioral Sciences department at 858-534-9262 or unexhealthcare@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.