IHGC 5559
New Course: Humanities in Place
Course Description
This seminar treats the ethics of food as a way into questions about humanity¿s changing role within ecological systems. It explores the practical controversies arising within of contemporary food practices ¿ including obligations to the hungry, responses to obesity, labor fairness, genetic technologies, and treatment of animals. It connects those controversies to broader inquiries about the meaning of food and the human presence in nature