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Unit of Study SOC03418 - Food and Drink in Contemporary Society (2014)

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Unit description

Enables students to apply basic gastronomic principles in a contemporary context. The unit focuses on modernisation and change leading into the twenty first century and looks at how changes to the way people eat and drink has been effected. Students will be encouraged to reflect on and analyse their own experiences and observations from a historical perspective.

Unit content

Module 1 Changes in diet and eating habits
Module 2 Culinary changes
Module 3 Twentieth century changes in dining and drinking
Module 4 Industrialisation and globalisation
Module 5 Making choices: Slow or fast
Module 6 Regionalisation and gastronomic tourism

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Location Domestic International
Online Session 2 Session 2,  2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 explore factors influencing recent changes in diets and eating habits and examine the significance of agricultural, technological and nutritional advances in this context
2 analyse the factors influencing the recent evolution of cuisines
3 apply an understanding of culinary evolution to the concept of regional cuisines
4 evaluate the trend towards globalisation and the individualisation of taste and appreciate their gastronomic implications
5 investigate the relevance of gastronomy to cultural tourism
6 prepare a Regional Foodways Research Project that synthesises information about cultural, social and economic practices to the production and consumption of food.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. explore factors influencing recent changes in diets and eating habits and examine the significance of agricultural, technological and nutritional advances in this context
    • GA4:
  2. analyse the factors influencing the recent evolution of cuisines
    • GA4:
  3. apply an understanding of culinary evolution to the concept of regional cuisines
    • GA2:
  4. evaluate the trend towards globalisation and the individualisation of taste and appreciate their gastronomic implications
    • GA7:
  5. investigate the relevance of gastronomy to cultural tourism
    • GA7:
  6. prepare a Regional Foodways Research Project that synthesises information about cultural, social and economic practices to the production and consumption of food.
    • GA2:
    • GA7:

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