Academic Team:
Galen Martin (gmartin@uoregon.edu)
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor
Mira Cross (mcross7@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant
9 credits
UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
CON 330: R 4 - 5:50 PM
CRN: 16214
ENVS 225 Introduction to Food Studies - 4 credits
Lecture
LLCS 101: MW 10 - 11:20 AM
CRN: 11797
Discussion
COL 142: F 11 - 11:50 AM
CRN: 11799
HIST 215 Food in World History - 4 credits
Lecture
MCK 129: TR 12 - 1:20 PM
CRN: 12330
Discussion
MCK 101: F 10 - 10:50 AM
CRN: 15477
About the FIG:
This FIG helps answer the questions: "Where does my food come from?" and "What difference does it make?" Associated classes explore the importance of food in history and in contemporary society. Half of our meeting time takes place off campus on Professor Martin's farm and in the kitchen. In this FIG, students will participate in harvesting, processing and cooking food, all culminating in homemade pumpkin pie to be eaten and shared with other food FIGs at our annual Harvest Party.
Deep-Dive FIG: This FIG is part of the food cluster, which includes multiple field trips and hands-on events. This course has been vetted by First Year Programs to ensure first-term students can achieve success. The instructor will be available to assist students along the way.
ENVS 225 Introduction to Food Studies - CoreEd or major satisfying course
This course provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary "field" of food studies and an introduction to the place of food in society. Using a comparative global perspective, we will explore the complex ways in which our foodways have emerged and explore the roles food plays at present. We will examine large-scale patterns and as well as the more intimate ways we engage or experience food in our daily lives. We will address key questions such as: Why use food as lens on society? How did the food system we have today develop? With what effects on the environment and our health? How does food help create meaning and identity for people in different cultural contexts? Why do some people (continue to) struggle to get enough food, while others eat so much that it makes them sick? What does the future hold for our engagement with food? What roles can or should we play in the food realm going forward?
HIST 215 Food in World History - CoreEd or major satisfying course
This course introduces students to the history of food practices from ancient times to the present. The course is divided into two chronological halves, the first centered on the ancient and premodern world and the second on the modern world. Topics in the first half include the development of constellations of eating habits and culinary philosophies characteristic of major world religions and the long-distance transfer of foodstuffs and culinary philosophies through migration.