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Dec 04, 2025
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ES 327 - Decolonize Your Diet
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Sustainability
Examination of Mesoamerican food traditions in Mexican and Central American communities in the US. The course considers individual and community benefits of growing and eating traditional foods and critically analyzes the US food system and social structures promoting assimilation.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Sustainability
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Define and apply key Ethnic Studies disciplinary terms such as sustainability, environmental justice, colonization, health disparities, the Latinx immigrant paradox, assimilation, decolonization, ancestral knowledge, racism, and gender oppression.
- Explain and critique the US food system;
- Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan research and collect data using social science methods;
- Write research-based hypotheses pertaining to the health benefits of ancestral diets for Chicanx, Latinx, and/or Indigenous peoples in the US; and
- Explain in writing, using examples, how Latinx/Chicanx and/or indigenous communities maintain their culture, their physical health, and the health of the planet by maintaining and reclaiming ancestral practices.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
- Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
- Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.
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