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GEOG 2500: Food, Place, and People

Course FormatLecture 4.0 h + Seminar 0.0 h + Lab 0.0 h
Credits3.0

Everybody must eat but have you thought about how what you eat connects you to people, places, and ecologies around the world? Using a geographical lens, students in this course critically examine the relationships among food, nature, and society to explore how food is produced, processed, distributed, and consumed. Using the stories of common foods, students investigate changing local and global geographies of food and discover how food is embedded within foodscapes in Vancouver and other cities. Additionally, students consider how soil, climate, and terroir impact foods. Other topics include how race, class, ethnicity, and gender influence people's relationships to food production and consumption; Indigenous foodways; culinary cultural norms; labour; food security and food sovereignty; colonialism; and health.


Course Attributes:
2nd Year ArtsYes
2nd Year ScienceNo
HumanitiesNo
Lab ScienceNo
ScienceNo
Social ScienceYes
University
Transferable
Yes
Other Attributes:
Offered online:No
Preparatory course:No
Repeat limit2
Additional fees:
First offered:Spring 2025
Last offered:Spring 2025
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Outline(s):No outline found.
Transfer Agreements
CourseDestinationCreditStart to End
GEOG 2500Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityKPU GEOG 2XXX (3) 20250101 to present
GEOG 2500UBCOUBCO GEOG_O 221 (3) 20250101 to present
GEOG 2500UBCVUBCV GEOG_V 2nd (3) 20250101 to present
GEOG 2500University of the Fraser ValleyUFV GEOG 314 (3) 20250101 to present
GEOG 2500University of Northern BCUNBC GEOG 2XX (3) 20250101 to present
GEOG 2500University of VictoriaUVIC GEOG 2XX (1.5) H20250101 to present
GEOG 2500Okanagan CollegeOC GEOG 201 (3) 20250101 to present
Inactive Transfer Agreements (click to open)
CourseDestinationCreditStart to End
No inactive transfer agreements.

Offerings of this course:

SemesterCRNSectionSeatsWaitlistDaysTimeRoomTypeInstructor
Spring 2025107240011 -T-R---1030-1220A231LectureJenny Francis
--W----0830-1025A231ExamJenny Francis