Results for HUMBIO166

The material in this course is an introduction to the field and the target audience is undergraduates. It may be of interest to graduate students unfamiliar with the field. The class examines the array of forces that affect the foods human beings eat, and when, where, and how we eat them, including human labor, agriculture, environmental sustainability, politics, animal rights/welfare, ethics, policy, culture, economics, business, law, trade, and ideology, and psychology. The class addresses the impact of current policies and actions that might be taken to improve human nutrition and health; macro-scale influences on food, nutrition, and eating behavior. CHPR master's students must enroll for a letter grade. Undergraduate Prerequisites: Human Biology Core or Biology Foundations or consent of instructor. HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 166. Med/Graduate students must enroll in CHRP 166.