NSD380.2 Communication and Education in Feeding and Nutrition

NSD380.2 Communication and Education in Feeding and Nutrition

Taught in Spanish at Universidad de Chile and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you will learn to develop campaigns and communication programs designed to results in behavioral changes, habits and healthy lifestyles in food and nutrition among users of the health system. Our goals are to:

  • Apply educational and communication methodologies, based on theoretical approaches that allow meaningful learning, to mobilize the psychosocial variables conditioning the culture of individuals and groups of different ages and socioeconomic and cultural contexts, respecting ethical and bioethical principles.
  • Apply principles and methods of social communication and behavioral change in the diagnosis and planning of interventions that promote a healthy diet, according to the characteristics of the target groups and target audiences of health programs.
  • Apply a participatory educational methodology in food and nutrition education programs, based on participatory educational techniques that develop content, in various groups of the community, considering their sociocultural diversity and respecting ethical and bioethical principles.

Students completing this course should be able to:

  • Apply concepts and methods of behavioral change models applied to social communication, diagnosing communication problems at the primary health level, in order to establish a baseline for the development of campaigns and communication programs that promote behavioral changes that lead to healthy lifestyles in the field of nutritionist performance.
  • Design material for social communication programs of food and nutrition, based on the identification of communication problems with the aim of reducing inequality and gaps in information and motivation existing in the community and different groups of the population.
  • Distinguish roles, aims, and conceptions of participatory educational practice, from the application of various group educational techniques that allow the population to learn in a collaborative, contextualized, self-regulated, and constructive manner, which form an important part of the construction of programs education in education and nutrition.

(UdC #NU05028)

FST300.1 Culinary Crossings: Exploring Mediterranean Food Systems (Signature Seminar; Spring 2028)

LIMITED ENROLLMENTThis traveling seminar offers a first-hand exploration of the social and cultural exchanges that have been shaping the Mediterranean (and societies beyond) for centuries. It analyzes these issues from a food-systems perspective that investigates how meaning is conveyed through food. Throughout the seminar, we will analyze how food practices express local and regional identities in Sicily.

The 3 credits earned for this seminar will be included in the maximum 19 credits that you are permitted to take during your semester abroad. You must enroll in a minimum of 12 other credits for the semester, not including this seminar.

This Signature Seminar is optional and travel destinations are subject to change. Seminar takes place after the semester concludes.

CRS318 Fashion in Focus: Discourses and Meanings (Fall, Spring)

Fashion has an image problem. It occupies a problematic and contradictory position within culture: everyone to a greater or lesser extent engages with it, yet it is culturally condemned as ‘feminine’, ‘vacuous’, ‘superficial’, and even ‘dangerous’.  The fashion industry is the biggest industrial employer in the world and one of the three biggest economic sectors, yet in contemporary culture, fashion is sidelined and rarely discussed in a mature manner that extends beyond the stylistic. Fashion lacks its own language and is all too often reduced to or equated with ‘shopping’. But this reduction is far from the truth.

This course will examine the different meanings and discourses of fashion and demonstrate how fashion is in fact so much more than what we see in adverts and shops and indeed carries an extensive set of meanings and has multiple functions in human life.

All human cultures engage in body adornment. This course departs from this anthropological fact to build a multi-faceted picture of the different discourses and meanings that together address the full complexity of the term ‘fashion.’

Fashion is both the central subject of the course and at the same time will function as a lens for examining wider socioeconomic tendencies, highlighting that far from being superficial, fashion is in fact “the most talkative of social facts” (Daniel Roche, 2000).

PAI680.13 Sociology and Social Policy (Tsinghua U – grad)

Taught in English. This interdisciplinary course provides the opportunity to combine the subject areas of sociology, economics, political science and social policy. It introduces students to social science ideas, and how they relate to illustrative social policy concerns. The course is organized around major social policy issues such as poverty and inequality; family life; aging and old-age income security; labor market and unemployment; healthcare; education and training, which are then studied under classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives, notably the structural-functional approach, the social-conflict theories and the symbolic-interaction perspective.

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy & Management and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end-date.

PAI680.12 From Industrial to Innovation Policy (Tsinghua U – grad)

Taught in English. This course seeks to prepare students with skills to understand the causes and effects of industrial and innovation policy. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach and emphasizes the importance of teamwork in the design and implementation of industrial and innovation policy. In addition to developing analytical skills, students are expected to strengthen their capacity to work in teams by integrating knowledge from a diversity of sources. The course is designed to take in students from all fields interested in the role of industrial and innovation policy in development. The sessions will be conducted through guided discussions as well as lectures, guest speakers and presentations by students. (TU #90590032)

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy & Management and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end-date.

PAI680.11 Development Theory and Practice (Tsinghua U – grad)

Taught in English. This course provides a comprehensive framework to understand the course, experience, and lessons of development through the comparison from the early and the newly industrialized economies, middle income economies to the under developed economies. All these de facto analysis would follow by the de jure discussion of the key factors of development, such as capital, people, technology and institution. The practice of China in its economic development under comparison approach would be included in each module. (TU #80590833)

Class taught by Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy & Management and may not be available every semester. Tsinghua’s exam schedule for this course may require students to stay beyond the regular SU Beijing program end-date.

BIO306 Drug Discovery (Fall, Spring)

Drug discovery is the process through which potential new medicines are identified. In this course, we will explore historical perspectives on traditional drug discovery and the use of new Biotechnology tools that can be applied for the discovery and design of new drugs.

The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the steps involved from drug discovery to final market approval. We will examine how the candidates and the targets get established, and the types of laboratory tests and clinical trials that are required before a drug is ready for human use.

We will pay particular attention to the new methods for the design of drugs that are now used to tackle certain challenging illnesses and to the use of new Biotechnology approaches to drug design. We will study the process and issues from both the U.S. and European perspectives.

STS300.1 Scientific Controversies: Historical Perspectives and Social Implications (Fall)

Scientific knowledge lies at the heart of modern civilization. Science and the concomitant rise of industrial technology have revolutionized our biological and social identities, re-defining education, life expectancy, health, nutrition, humanity, communication, popular entertainment, transport, war, energy, bureaucracy, and much more.

Yet not all of these techno-scientific changes have been equally beneficial. Some have had harmful long-term consequences that continue to affect our daily lives, threatening the quality of basic resources, physical health, mental well-being and future environmental stability.

Historical studies of scientific controversy focus on underlying contradictions and their resolution. For example, justification for disputed research (such as designer babies), or how we arrive at honest evaluations of potential benefits and/or risks of technological innovation (such as patent drugs, agricultural pesticides, drones, and electronic surveillance).

They also raise questions regarding our trust in the objective authority of science, the impartiality of expert advice, and acceptable standards for regulation of dangers, notably to human health, and the extent of unsustainable damage to the global environment.

Cross-listed with HST 419