Cultural Foods and Global Nutrition

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Identify food-related beliefs, values and habits of people from various ethnic groups around the world.
• Compare foods of people from different countries and understand the influence of culture, religion and other environmental factors on food and nutrition behaviors.
• Understand different ways of preparing food, utilizing spices and symbolic value of foods to translate nutrition needs into food choices and menus for people of diverse cultures and religions.
• Identify dual burden of malnutrition, common nutritional deficiencies and their relationship with the health.
• Examine how social, economic and environmental factors, including food insecurity, affect health and nutrition status in different countries worldwide.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Ethnic Food Store Observation Report	12%
Ethnic Food Store Observation .ppt presentation	12%
Presentation of three key ethnic unique food items from the Ethnic Food Store Observation	12%
In-class discussion activities	50%
Final take home exam	24%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93% and above	A
90 - 92%	A-
87 - 89%	B+
83 – 86%	B
80 - 82%	B-
77 – 79%	C+
73 – 76%	C
70 -72%	C-
67 – 69%	D+
63 – 66%	D
60 – 62%	D-
below 60%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Regular attendance is expected and required because class sessions include graded discussion activities that cannot be completed outside of class.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.