| Responsible Department | Institute of Food and Resource Economics | ||||||||||||
| Course Dates | 17 morning seminars on Wednesday in weeks with uneven numbers May-June + Aug-Dec. 2011 and February-Marchl 2012. Two One day-long seminars April and in October 2011. | ||||||||||||
| Course Abstract | The aim of the course aim is to present the participants to current issues related to the sociology of food and agriculture. Students will be introduced to new and classic sociological theory within the field and they will be trained to critically evaluate theoretical contributions and empirical research designs of both qualitative and quantitative nature. | ||||||||||||
| Course Registration | To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to Professor Lotte Holm at loho@life.ku. dk. Please indicate: 1) Contact information 2) Bachelor degree (educational area) 3) Master's degree (educational area and thesis title) 4) PhD programme (area and project title) 5) A short description of your project and 6) A short motivation for participating in this course. | ||||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | 15. April 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 10 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course takes place at LIFE, Frederiksberg. | ||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||
| Restrictions | Maximum number of participants: 12. Priority is given to phd-students from LIFE. Social science qualifications at the level of a master degree is a precondition for participation. | ||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||
| During the course lectures will be given about fundamentals and new developments within the sociology of food and agriculture. Students will present papers reflecting issues relevant for their own project, based on literature study and own empirical data and or research designs. Students will also critically evaluate others' research designs and papers. Two seminars will include prominent external researchers within the sociology of food and agriculture. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Lecturers, seminars with required presentations and discussion of other student presentations, and written papers. | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| After completing the course the PhD students will have the following qualifications: Knowledge: have gained substantial knowledge about the fundamentals and current issues in the sociology of food and agriculture, both theoretically, empirically and methodologically. Skills: have acquired practical skills relevant for designing sociological empirical studies as well as skills in critical assessment of the theoretical basis for and design of sociological studies Competences: have the ability to develop an original sociological research relevant to a specific problem within the area food and agriculture. | |||||||||||||
| Course Material | |||||||||||||
| Arluke, A & Sanders, C. 1996, Regarding Animals. Temple University Press, Philadelphia. pp.167-86 Beck, U, 1986, On The Way To The Industrial Risk-Society? Outline Of An Argument. Thesis eleven, vol. 23:86, pp. 86-103. Mennel, S., Murcott, A., & van Otterloo, A. H. 1992, The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture Sage Publications, London. pp. 28-47; 54-60; 68-74 & 88-94 Murcott, A. 1988, "Sociological and social anthropological approaches to food and eating", Wld Rev Nutr Diet, vol. 55, pp. 1-40. Slovic, P. 1987, Perception of risk. Science, vol. 236:4799, pp280-285 Vialles, N, 1994, Animal to edible. Cambridge University Press. pp.3-22) Warde, A. 1997, Comsumption, food and taste Sage Publications Ltd, London (Chapters 1, 2, 4 & 5; pp. 7-42 & 57-96) Wynne, B. E.,1996, May the sheep safely graze? A reflexive view of the expert-lay knowledge divide. In: Lash et al: Risk, environment and modernity: towards a new ecology. Sage. pp..44-83 | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Lotte Holm, loho@foi.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Sociology of Food, Phone: 353-32496 Jesper Lassen, jlas@foi.dk, Institute of Food and Resource Economics/Consumption, Health and Ethics Unit, Phone: 353-33010 | |||||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||||
| There is no course fee for PhD students from Danish universities. | |||||||||||||
| Course Costs | |||||||||||||
| None | |||||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||||
| Portfolio-exam based on teachers' evaluation of students performances in the course activities, based on the following: two written papers, two reflections on received critical evaluation of papers, teacher evaluations of four oral contributions to critical assessment of research, and confirmed participation in the two one-day seminars. | |||||||||||||
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