Course Overview [pdf], [MS Word] and [html]

Course Outline [pdf], [MS Word] and [html]

Students will:

- explain how culture affects food choices

- explain how location and climate affect food supply

- identify why food patterns differ from region to region and country to country

- prepare a variety of foods that are typical of the country being studied and compare to regions where that population migrated in the United States

- examine the difference between chronic hunger, malnutrition, and famine

- determine how finite resources can be used to meet worldwide needs

- appreciate a variety of family customs, traditions, and differences related to foods

- investigate new methods of feeding a growing population.