| Affiliations: | Urban Re-Rural/Everybody Eats: Community Food Security and the Land Grant School |
| Project Leader: | Sylvia Emmanuel smarieemmanuel@tamu.edu Sociology |
| Faculty Mentor: | Sarah Gatson, Ph.D |
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Spring 2017: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:45-2:00 PM |
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Team Size:
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5 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Description:
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This is one of the sub-projects offered in the Sociology of the Community (SOCI 404) course which seeks to study and analyze the community as both a social institution and as a social experience that fosters communal relationships and networks. Specifically, this sub-project will endeavor to study these phenomena from within the context of residence life on campus which is centered around the idea of cultivating of an open and safe space where students can engage each other socially and academically. Those involved in this project will be observing and analyzing the creation and facilitation of community within the dorm in relation to food access and security. For example, we will seek to answer some of the following questions: how do residents obtain their food? Do they grow their own food in a community garden or do they buy it? If the food is bought, where do they buy it? How do residents acquire their food—do they have their own vehicle or do they need to carpool with other residents? Do they cook together? Share food together? And so on. |