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Dec 04, 2025
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HOS 297 - Food & Culture
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Social Justice
Exploration of the impact of foods and cultures on the world today. In-depth look at the social, political, historical, economic, and environmental systems that have shaped food traditions, practices, and patterns in different countries, religions, and cultures.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Social Justice
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Describe the interactions of people, cultures, and food habits.
- Examine key factors influencing diets.
- Paraphrase components that shape culture.
- Identify how one’s culture influences food patterns.
- Identify cultural variations in manners and social interactions.
- Examine some cultural messages of special foods.
- Identify traditions and celebrations of various religions
- Identify aspects of foods associated with each country.
- Interpret the historical significance on foods of each country.
- Describe food patters of each country’s regions and the influences that shaped them.
- Compare characteristics which differentiate the countries and their nations.
- Contrast characteristics which differentiate the countries and their nations.
- Identify typical foods of the region and their various countries.
- Review each country’s cultural contributions to the world.
- Identify unique characteristics of each country.
- Summarize the demographic and resulting cultural changes that are occurring.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
- use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
- describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
- identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.
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