Food Classes

 

COURSES

A list of courses relevant to food, agriculture, nutrition, and sustainability from the 2012-2013 Harvard Course Catalog.

SUMMER 2012

Feast and Famine: The Microbiology of Food (BIOS S-154 (32865))
Harvard Summer School    Summer 2012
Benjamin E. Wolfe PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow in FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University

Global Nutrition (NUT217-01)

Harvard School of Public Health    August 2012
Roland Kupka

Environmental Economics (ENVR S-161 (32629))

Harvard Summer School    Summer 2012
Jennifer Clifford PhD, Lecturer in Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston

FALL TERM 2012

FAS

Freshman Seminar 25k – You Are What You Eat (3913)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Karin B. Michels

Freshman Seminar 24n – Child Health in America (6367)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Judith Palfrey (Medical School) and John G. Palfrey

Freshman Seminar 23m – Nutrition and Public Health (8823)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Clifford Lo

Anthropology 2618 – The Body in the Age of Obesity (53474)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Susan Greenhalgh

Anthropology 2712 – Ethnographies of Food (31444) 
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Theodore C. Bestor

Environmental Science and Public Policy 78 – Environmental Politics (3613)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Sheila Jasanoff (Kennedy School)

History of Science 193 – History and Technology of Food Production in Modern America (42654)

Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Chin Jou
History of Science 142 – History and Politics of the American Obesity Epidemic(27547)

Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Chin Jou

Human Evolutionary Biology 3350 – Laboratory Methods in Primate and Human Nutrition(62293)

Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Richard W. Wrangham

Mind, Brain, and Behavior 95 – Addiction, Choice, and Motivation (4890)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Gene M. Heyman (Medical School)

OEB 59 – Plants and Human Affairs (5281)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
Donald H. Pfister and Charles C. Davis

Science of the Physical Universe 27 – Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (73191)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Fall 2012-2013
David Weitz (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) and Michael P. Brenner (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)  Click here to watch videos of Science and Cooking’s public lectures!

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape (VIS 0241500)

Architecture
Seminar – 4 credits – Limited enrollment
Friday 2:30 – 5:30   7 Sumner 104

KENNEDY SCHOOL

Global Food Politics and Policy (IGA-422)

Harvard Kennedy School    Fall 2012
Robert Paarlberg

LAW SCHOOL 

Food: A Health Law and Policy Seminar (2359)
Harvard Law School    Fall 2012
Robert Greenwald
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Nutrition Seminars Part I (NUT203-01)
Harvard School of Public Health    Fall 2012
Walter C. Willett

Seminar in Nut & Food Policy (NUT226-01)

Harvard School of Public Health    Fall 2012
Natalia I Morozova and Clifford W. Lo

Principles of Nutrition (NUT201-01)

Harvard School of Public Health    Fall 2 2012
Clifford W. Lo

EXTENSION SCHOOL

From Farm to Fork: Why What You Eat Matters (ENVR E-129 (13744))
Harvard Extension School    Fall 2012
Gary Adamkiewicz PhD, Senior Research Scientist in Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health – P. K. Newby ScD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine

SPRING TERM 2013

FAS

African and African American Studies 119x – Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food (10526)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
Carla Denny Martin


Anthropology 1882 – The Woman and the Body (15985)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
Susan Greenhalgh

Environmental Science and Public Policy 10 – Environmental Policy (6383)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
John Briscoe

Environmental Science and Public Policy 90c – Ecology and Land-Use Planning(3792)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
Richard T. T. Forman (Design School)

Ethical Reasoning 35 – Nature (35187)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
Joyce E. Chaplin (History)

Human Evolutionary Biology 1411 – Evolution and Adaptation of the Human Diet (89118)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
Noreen Tuross and Richard W. Wrangham

Science of Living Systems 19 – Nutrition and Global Health (50018)  Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
Christopher P. Duggan (Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health), Wafaie W. Fawzi (Harvard School of Public Health) and Clifford W. Lo (Harvard Medical School)

LAW SCHOOL

Legal and Public Health Perspectives on Food Policy (2542)
Harvard Law School    Spring 2013

Food Law (2544)
Harvard Law School    Spring 2013
Jacob E. Gersen

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Seminar in Nut & Food Policy (NUT226-02)

Harvard School of Public Health    Spring 2013
Natalia I Morozova and Clifford W. Lo

Nutrition Seminars, Part II (NUT206-01)
Harvard School of Public Health    Spring 2013
Walter C. Willett

Global Environmental Change & Food Production (ID551-01)
Harvard School of Public Health    Spring 2013
Samuel Skipworth Myers M.D.

BPH 222 – The Science of Human Nutrition (0216)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences    Spring 2012-2013
Frank M. Sacks (Medical School, Public Health), Clifford Lo (Medical School, Public Health) and members of the Department

 

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