This class will introduce students to the wine regions of the world. They will learn methods of grape cultivation and wine making, the fundamentals of viticulture, cultures of terroir, tasting skills, marketing strategies, and the effects of climate change.

This course, which is a requirement in the Minor program in Food Studies, provides students with the basic content and methodological training they need to understand the connections between food, culture, and society. The course examines fundamental debates around food politics, health, culture, sustainability, and justice. Students will gain an appreciation of the material, ecological, and political foundations of the global food system as well as the ways that food shapes personal and collective identities of race, class, gender, and nation. Tutorials will meet in the Culinaria Kitchen Laboratory.

An exploration of how eating and cooking traditions around the world have been affected by economic, environmental, and social changes, including imperialism, migration, climate change, and urbanization. Topics include: immigrant cuisines, commodity exchanges, and the rise of the restaurant. Tutorials focus on exploring cooking traditions from across time and around the world. exploration of how eating traditions around the world have been affected by economic and social changes, including imperialism, migration, the rise of a global economy, and urbanization. Lectures will be supplemented by cooking demonstrations.

This course explores vine cultivation and wine making, marketing, and consumption around the world, linking it to challenges of social, cultural, and environmental sustainability. This course includes in-class tastings

This course puts urban food systems in world historical perspective using case studies from around the world and throughout time. Topics include provisioning, food preparation and sale, and cultures of consumption in courts, restaurants, street vendors, and domestic settings. Students will practice historical and geographical methodologies to map and interpret foodways.

Same as HISC05H3

This class introduces students to baking traditions from around the world, including both dietary staples (breads of various types) and luxury goods (pastry). It examines underlying scientific principles and environmental contexts. Culinaria Kitchen labs teach practical skills while encouraging innovation.

Through engagement with policymakers, researchers, and industry stakeholders, this course explores the political economy of the Canadian food system and, broadly, global food systems. The course provides an introduction to the commercial determinants of health and relevant theoretical frameworks; examines the role of private industry in the research and policymaking process; explores the role of power within political and economic structures that affects human behaviour, preferences, and culture; and presents examples of current research related to corporate influence of food policies in Canada and globally.

This class uses evidence-based approaches combining culinary arts, nutrition science, food literacies, and related applied health sciences to explore how food helps to prevent, manage, and treat diet-related health conditions. Working in the Culinaria Kitchen Laboratory, students will learn to cook foods and plan diets that are healthy, delicious, economical, and culturally diverse.

This course will help students learn to identify inequalities around food and gain skills to help ensure broad access to healthy, sustainable, and culturally appropriate food. Frameworks will include race, gender, class, indigeneity, and generational differences.

Across cultures, women are the main preparers and servers of food in domestic settings; in commercial food production and in restaurants, and especially in elite dining establishments, males dominate. Using agricultural histories, recipes, cookbooks, memoirs, and restaurant reviews and through the exploration of students’ own domestic culinary knowledge, students will analyze the origins, practices, and consequences of such deeply gendered patterns of food labour and consumption.

This course explores familiar foods - from field to plate and microbiome - as plants, seeds, crops, comestibles, commodities, and nutrients. Case-studies select from chocolate, tea, coffee, sugar, grains, and produce. Topics include socio-cultural, socio-political, and nutritional transitions, evolving supply chains, and climate change impact on production and consumption.

Students in this course will examine the development of regional cuisines in North and South America. Topics will include indigenous foodways, the role of land expropriation, commodity production and alcohol trade in the rise of colonialism, the formation of national cuisines, industrialization, migration, and contemporary globalization. Tutorials will be conducted in the Culinaria Kitchen Laboratory.

This course uses street food to comparatively assess the production of ‘the street’, the legitimation of bodies and substances on the street, and contests over the boundaries of, and appropriate use of public and private space. It also considers questions of labour and the culinary infrastructure of contemporary cities around the world.

Same as GGRC34H3

Students examine historical themes for local and regional cuisines across Global Asia, including but not limited to Anglo-Indian, Arab, Bengali, Chinese, Himalayan, Goan, Punjabi, Japanese, Persian, Tamil, and Indo-Caribbean. Themes include religious rituals, indigenous foodways; colonialism, industrialization, labour, gender, class, migration, globalization, and media. Tutorials are in the Culinaria Kitchen Lab.

This option is available in rare and exceptional circumstances to students who have demonstrated a high level of academic maturity and competence. Qualified students will have the opportunity to investigate a topic in Food Studies that is of common interest to both student and supervisor.

This seminar will expose students to advanced subject matter and research methods in Food Studies. Each seminar will explore a selected topic.

This course introduces students to a range of writing about food and culture, exposing them to different genres and disciplines, and assisting them to experiment with and develop their own prose. The course is designed as a capstone offering in Food Studies, and as such, asks students to draw on their own expertise and awareness of food as a cultural vehicle to write in a compelling way about social dynamics, historical meaning, and - drawing specifically on the Scarborough experience - the diasporic imaginary.

This course combines elements of a practicum with theoretical approaches to the study and understanding of the place of food in visual culture. It aims to equip students with basic to intermediate-level skills in still photography, post-processing, videography, and editing. It also seeks to further their understanding of the ways in which scholars have thought and written about food and the visual image, with special emphasis on the “digital age” of the last thirty years.

This course examines the central place of cuisine and ecology in cultures around the world, with a focus on community growing, home cooking, food preservation, and experiences of gardens, restaurants, kitchens, and marketplaces, and sustainable foodways. Learning methods include interviews, field trips, sensory tasting and cooking, multi-media experiential learning, surveys, critical reading and writing.

Experiential learning in Food Studies is critical for understanding the complexities of the global food system and sustainability. This course provides exciting and inspiring experiential learning opportunities with food innovators across Canada and internationally. The course entails a 7-10-day field camp with destinations potentially changing yearly, that prioritizes sustainability and agroecological innovations; mapping cultures; communication and heritage; health and equity; culinary and system analysis

This course introduces Global Asia Studies through studying historical and political perspectives on Asia. Students will learn how to critically analyze major historical texts and events to better understand important cultural, political, and social phenomena involving Asia and the world. They will engage in intensive reading and writing for humanities.
Same as HISA06H3

This course introduces Global Asia Studies through the study of cultural and social institutions in Asia. Students will critically study important elements of culture and society over different periods of history and in different parts of Asia. They will engage in intensive reading and writing for humanities.

This course examines the role of technological and cultural networks in mediating and facilitating the social, economic and political processes of globalization. Key themes include imperialism, militarization, global political economy, activism, and emerging media technologies. Particular attention is paid to cultures of media production and reception outside of North America.
Same as MDSB32H3/(MDSB05H3)

What are marriage and love in South Asia? What do we understand about South Asian societies by studying about marriage, love, and sexuality? In South Asia, marriage is classically understood as an alliance between families or social groups for economic and political reasons, and as an instrument for maintaining a particular normative social order and perpetuating certain hierarchies. Marriage is seen as an institution which legitimizes sex and engineers social/biological reproduction. It is also placed within the private domain of society. However, recent studies on marriage show how, in this era of globalization, mobility, the notions of love, marriage and sexuality intersect with larger political, social, legal and global structures, on the one hand, and notions of gender, class, caste, morality, and modernity on the other. In these ever-changing global South Asian societies, ‘alternative’ and ‘non-normative’ conjugal relationships, love, and sexuality have been seen as part of the globalization and modernizing process. Through this course, we will critically analyse such claims and examine how love, marriage sexuality and kinships are constructed, shaped, governed and constituted politically, culturally, legally, and ideologically. How do the larger structures such as state, legal institutions, colonialism and globalisation, migration processes, class and caste configurations, gender formations, and new communication/visual technologies shape the everyday life of people by entering their private domains through the notions of love, and marriage? Moreover, by studying marriage, kinship and love in South Asia, we critically examine and unpack the dualistic ideas of private vs public, individual vs community, global vs local, modern vs traditional, change vs stagnation, and ‘normative’ vs ‘non-normative’ in South Asian societies.

The course will provide students with an introduction to the arts of South Asia, from classical to modern, and from local to global. Fields of study may include music, dance, drama, literature, film, graphic arts, decorative arts, magic, yoga, athletics, and cuisine, fields viewed as important arts for this society.

This course will examine the role of Tamil cinema, its impacts, and its representation in the everyday life of Tamil societies. Cinema has become an integral part of the politics and social life of people in Tamil societies across the globe. It is shaping, affecting and influencing every part of the public life. Cinema as form of public culture shapes and impacts the modern life of Tamil societies. In this class, we will look at the links between public culture and the medium of cinema: How does cinema become the visual culture through which certain notions of culture, justice, politics, community and nations are circulated, created, and negotiated? Are the audience passive receivers of the visual culture or active participants? How do larger political, social, and economic forces interplay within the medium of cinema among Tamils in South Asia and in various Tamil diaspora? This course introduces important conceptual and ethnographic tools to critically engage with and understand Global Tamil cinema, its themes around contemporary Global Tamil societies, politics and culture, and its impact on the daily life of people. We will use conceptual tools, the medium of cinema, and other readings to critically understand and unpack Tamil societies and their contemporary issues through visual mediums.

This course examines the role of gender in shaping social institutions in Asia.

This course examines the close relationship between religions and cultures, and the role they play in shaping the worldviews, aesthetics, ethical norms, and other social ideals in Asian countries and societies.

This course examines the global spread of different versions of Buddhism across historical and contemporary societies.

This course surveys central issues in the ethnographic study of contemporary South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). Students will engage with classical and recent ethnographies to critically examine key thematic fault lines within national imaginations, especially along the lines of religion, caste, gender, ethnicity, and language. Not only does the course demonstrate how these fault lines continually shape the nature of nationalism, state institutions, development, social movements, violence, and militarism across the colonial and post-colonial periods but also, demonstrates how anthropological knowledge and ethnography provide us with a critical lens for exploring the most pressing issues facing South Asia in the world today.

Same as ANTB42H3