Cultural Foods

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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9/20/2021 - 12/11/2021

$395

Online

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• SECTION ID:

  158237

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  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.

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Food and Culture 7th
  by Kittler, Sucher, Nelms
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781305628052

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 9/24/2021.
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  9/20/2021 - 12/11/2021
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  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.

1/3/2022 - 3/19/2022

$395

Online

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• SECTION ID:

  161081

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  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.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  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.

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Food and Culture 7th
  by Kittler, Sucher, Nelms
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781305628052

  Food and Culture 7th
  by Kittler, Sucher, Nelms
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781305628052

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 1/7/2022.
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  1/3/2022 - 3/19/2022
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  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.