Section Info: ANTHR-216FD-01

Course Title: Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Ethnographic Food Documentary'
Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025
Term: Spring Semester 2025
Description: Students will learn basic skills on ethnographic methods in anthropology as they are introduced to issues of food and culinary cultural practices, politics and history. Selected readings and films will explore the intersections of food with colonialism, race and ethnicity, gender, health, political economy, and social movements. The course has a focus on Latinx and Latin American/Caribbean foodways, however students will apply the course's conceptual toolkit in a wide range of cultural settings. Students will learn techniques of participant observation, interviews, script writing and visual analysis to conduct fieldwork in a local cultural community in South Hadley and surroundings, as they are guided towards producing a short ethnographic food documentary.
Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , CBL - Community-Based Learning , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Pilar Eguez Guevara             pilareguez@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   Discussion   Tuesday and Thursday   03:15PM - 04:30PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
None                    

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
CRPE0001   CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor.  
CRPE0006   CRPE-PE: People, Power, Place Courses   This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE People, Power, Place requirement.  

Cross-listed Sections        
CRPE-240EF-01 Ethnographic Food Documentary  
ANTHR-216FD-01 Ethnographic Food Documentary  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 18     Available: 0     Waitlist: 7
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.