Fall 2025 Italian GU4015 section 001

ITALIAN FOOD/GLOBALIZED WORLD

Call Number 10955
Day & Time
Location
M 2:10pm-4:00pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Barbara Faedda
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description This seminar examines the many meanings of food in Italian culture and tradition; how values and peculiarities are transmitted, preserved, reinvented and rethought through a lens that is internationally known as ;Made in Italy;; how the symbolic meanings and ideological interpretations are connected to creation, production, presentation, distribution, and consumption of food. Based on an anthropological perspective and framework, this interdisciplinary course will analyze ways in which we can understand the Italian taste through the intersections of many different levels: political, economic, aesthetic, symbolic, religious, etc. The course will study how food can help us understand the ways in which tradition and innovation, creativity and technology, localism and globalization, identity and diversity, power and body, are elaborated and interpreted in contemporary Italian society, in relation to the European context and a globalized world. Short videos that can be watched on the computer and alternative readings for those fluent in Italian will be assigned. In English.
Web Site Vergil
Department Italian
Enrollment 0 students (25 max) as of 9:05PM Friday, March 28, 2025
Subject Italian
Number GU4015
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Section key 20253ITAL4015G001