SNAP Challenge in the communication classroom

Courses Health Communication, Gender Communication, Communication and Food, Communication and Diversity, Ethnography, Critical/Cultural Studies, or Qualitative Methods

Objectives

• Explain, assess, and critique the social, cultural, and political discourses related to food.

• Analyze how communication about food reflects and influences issues of inequality.

• Examine and alter damaging racist, sexist, and classist stereotypes of low income people and SNAP recipients.

• Practice composing scholarship informed by communication theories and personal health behavior.