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HSN704 - Food, Nutrition and Society

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Offered at:(X)
Credit point(s):1
Offerings: Trimester 2
EFTSL value: 0.125
Unit chair:

T Worsley (B)

Incompatible with: HSN308
Note: Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications.

Content

This unit aims to provide an understanding of the social context of food choice and food behaviour. Six modules will cover:

  1. the 'sociological imagination" and influential schools of sociology and anthropology, the nature of culture, cultural theory and social ideologies, common institutions in society;
  2. introduction to the history of food and nutrition; the global food system, free markets, globalisation, nutrition transition and the global food crisis;
  3. religious dietary rules;
  4. eating occasions, the composition and social contexts of evening meals, food acquisition preparation and consumption, food as the expression of social relationships and symbolic exchange
  5. food and gender, socio-economic class, ethnicity, age and marital status, and marginalised social categories, responsibility of feeding children sick and infirm people
  6. risk and safety, the 'tyranny of beauty', the pursuit of cleanliness, food and health concerns, the culture of fear, dietary supplementation, vegetarianism

Assessment

Two assignments (2000 words) 50% each

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Student Contribution Rate***Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$1006$1006$1006$2746$2858

* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.

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