This course considers nutrition from an anthropological perspective.
Nutrition plays a major role in health, wellness, and disease states
in human populations.  The choices we make regarding nutrition are
informed by science and the media, as well as cultural constructs of
identity.  An anthropological perspective includes both the biological
and cultural aspects of nutrition across place and time. Additionally,
nutritional anthropology includes the study of subsistence systems
over the evolutionary course of human existence, from prehistoric and
historic to modern times.  The goals of this course are to introduce
the field of nutritional anthropology, and to provide some basis for
assessing the reliability and feasibility of nutritional advice and
policy encountered in everyday modern life.