| CODE | FSN5031 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Food Ethics | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Food Sciences and Nutrition | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will highlight the main societal and economic issues that affect the food supply/demand chain. Study-unit Aims: The study-unit will highlight: - The main societal issues that affect the food supply/demand chain and the identify the measures in food policy and strategy that can be used to address such issues; - Justification for issues raised and practice common in the food industry (farm to fork) will be characterized, discussed and analyzed; - The development of codes of practice for food professionals to promote professional integrity will be discussed; - To enable participants to learn from each other by creating an online learning community; - To facilitate collaborative learning in a scaffolded approach. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify societal issues (such as food deserts, food insecurity and sovereignty); - Identify issues associated with industrial practices including the waste and byproducts of production; and - Analyse issues (above) and provide/propose mitigation processes to promote fair, safe and therefore ethical foods; - Set up a personal blog to showcase one's ideas and work [already set up for other study-units; - Present personal opinions in an online blog. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Argue for equity regarding the availability and affordability of safe and wholesome food for the general public and its effect on quality of life; and - Propose strategies and a code of conduct for food professionals. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Pence Gregory E., The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2002. - Mepham T.B., Food Ethics (Professional Ethics), Routledge 1996. - Michael Heasman and Tim Lang. Food Wars: The global battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets. London, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2012. - Bryan L McDonald,. Food Security. Cambridge: Polity Press Wiley, 2010. - Marion Nestle, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture). University of California Press, 2007. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study and Online Learning | ||||||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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