Spring 2027

Foodways

Foodways explores artistic, social, sensory, and spiritual food expressions conveying identity, ethnicity, gender, and class, reviewing food writing and scholarly perspectives.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2015: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2017: 3.50 GPA, 58.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize and apply important concepts in folklore studies.

  • Describe a range of culinary cultures and food-related folklore.

  • Connect personal experience with the course material.

  • Recognize history's impact on the present.

  • Conduct folkloristic research and analyze foodways traditions.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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FOLKLORE 439

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  • Sophomore standing

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2015: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2017: 3.50 GPA, 58.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Artistic, social, sensory, and spiritual food expressions related to identity, ethnicity, gender, and class.
  • Food writing and scholarly perspectives including culinary historical, structural-functional, and performance approaches.
  • Folkloristic research and analysis of foodways traditions.

Skills

  • Apply important concepts in folklore studies.
  • Describe culinary cultures and food-related folklore.
  • Conduct folkloristic research and analyze foodways traditions.

Grades

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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