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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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COMM 0300 - Food: Communication, Community, and Civic Engagement
Credits: 3
The course explores ways in which food consumption, grocery shopping, the procurement of food, and the cultural context of that process in ordinary daily living become a form of active conscientious civic engagement. Impacts of grocery shopping will be analyzed through investigating the interconnectedness between mediated consumer culture, environmental sustainability, social justice, public health, and peace and justice. Students will explore a variety of consumer models as communicative praxis, from conventional grocery stores to food co-ops to farmers’ markets. We will discuss important considerations in purchasing choices, including methods of crop production, transportation, local economy, and processing techniques. Students will learn knowledge and skills to choose products that best fit their goals for civic and democratic engagement.
Prerequisites: COMM 0101 .
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