module
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
SOCM022: Food, Body and Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module will be structured as a reading and discussion seminar. The following themes will likely be covered, with minor variation from year to year depending upon the availability and current research of lecturers contributing to the module:
- The human experience of food, from necessity to pleasure
- Food, eating and the making of individual bodies
- Food and/as medicine
- Food prohibitions and avoidances
- Food, choice and social class
- Commensality
- Cuisine
- Food, migration and diaspora
- Food and knowledge, from experience to memory
- Food and the Earth in the anthropocene
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 278 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 22 | 11 x 2-hour weekly seminar |
| Guided independent study | 50 | 10 x 5-hours weekly reading for seminar preparation |
| Guided independent study | 20 | 10 x 2-hours weekly preparation of reading response papers |
| Guided independent study | 58 | Research and writing of term essay |
| Guided independent study | 208 | Research and writing of term essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).