ICSM Food, Identity, Culture

Course Description: 
What does it mean to be a “foodie”? Where does your food come from? What is the connection between food, identity and culture and how do we communicate this? These and other questions about the role of food in our lives will be explored in this course, including: How do communities and individuals form identities around food? How are these  identities expressed through food? How are people and groups with particular food related viewed and treated by others? What does it mean to live, eat, and produce food sustainably? How have different systems of philosophical, literary, religious, and historical thought shaped the values concerning food we live by? We will seek answers to these questions of food, culture and identity, and more, as we engage intellectually through foundational readings from food studies, participate in individual, team and group exercises, and reflect on our food choices and behaviors.

Library Session Learning Objectives:

1. Discover Library resources and services and how to ask for help.
2. Evaluate source types (books, scholarly articles, tweets, etc.) and when best to use them.
3. ​Find and access a books and articles using the Library Search. 
4. Generate citations in the Library Search.

For each question, which types of information might you use? 
Be prepared to discuss why you chose particular source types.

Your professor asked you to write a paper on mental health and college students. 

You need a general overview of what mental health is and who are the lead scholars. 

You are looking for current events on students and mental health. 

You need statistics on the mental health concerns of students. 

You’re curious about what it feels like to be depressed.