Environment, Food, and Health in China

Catalog description

Environment, Food, and Health in China is an advanced Chinese course that aims to further improve students' comprehensive language ability and help students gain a basic understanding of China's environmental challenges and policies, the culinary tradition, and conceptions and practices related to health. The learning materials are adapted from authentic articles, documentaries, reports, and interviews in multimodal formats. The topics include the relationship between human and nature, energy utilization, pollution and protection, food culture, food exchange in globalization, food safety and health, food as medicine, etc. In this course, students will improve their four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in Chinese, be able to understand China’s environmental issues, dietary tradition, and health practices. Students are expected to write simple analysis essays in formal style and improve presentational and interpersonal language skills on these themes.