SOCIOL 278
The Business of Food
James Moody
Description from DukeHub
Every meal is the end of a story involving workers, entrepreneurs, managers, suppliers, critics, and consumers. This course follows food from production to consumption to explore how the industry works, and why some people, products, and businesses succeed while others struggle. Students will examine industry culture, creative careers, workplace organization, competition, supply chains, networks, and sustainability through readings, industry perspectives, field activities, and collaborative research.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 1 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- Yes: Live work with people · "collaborative"
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
More in SOCIOL
- Seeing Through Society: Thinking Like a Sociologist SOCIOL 110CC
- Beyond the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Families Under Surveillance SOCIOL 138CN
- Society, the Self, and the Natural World SOCIOL 180S
- Sex, Gender, and Society SOCIOL 218
- Incarceration Nation SOCIOL 228
- Elite Deviance: White Collar, Corporate, and Governmental Misconduct SOCIOL 244