TSM 311
Humanity in the Food Web
Credit: 3 hours.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Advanced Composition, and Hist&Philosoph Perspect course.The human food web is the complex network of technologies, environments, people, and social institutions that produces, processes, and distributes the world's food supply. Students will study the food webs of the past, present, and future and will explore various human roles, including their own, in the global technology-environment-society-food system. Course topics include domestication, mechanization, urbanization, the green revolution, biotechnology, food safety, the environment, and appropriate technologies for developing countries.
Available fall 2008