Bodies, Guts and Bones: A Biocultural Approach to Diet and Nutrition

Bodies, Guts and Bones: A Biocultural Approach to Diet and Nutrition is a Natural Science course taught by Pamela Stone.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
We are inundated with questions regarding diet, wellness and longevity. Often used words and phrases such as low fat, high fiber, no carbs, sugar free, calcium rich, anorexia, obesity, bone density, and supersize me, offer complex messages to the public. The interface between nutrition and popular culture fuels the core of this course. Students will work on independent projects that test popular notions about diet and nutrition using a broad range of methodologies and will design and carry out an original project on some aspect of food, nutrition and culture. Topics in human diet and nutrition will be examined from a biocultural perspective and will include current information on growth and development, nutrition and disease processes, diet and culture, anthropology, and genetics.

Learning Goals

 * Project-based
 * Presenting
 * Quantitative
 * Reading
 * Writing