AS 102: Examining U.S. Cultures in Place: "The 'Cultural Terroir' of the Bay Area"
Students will study and participate in the study and gathering of food and
wine oral history interviews designed to identify the Bay Area's
(specifically Napa and Berkeley) regional "Cultural Terroir." The food and
wine communities of this region have grown to national and international prominence due the distinctive creation of a "California Style" based on fresh, seasonal, regional produce, and quality wines. This course seeks to
bring the narratives of members of these California communities to life,
and will provide students with the opportunity to learn oral history
methodology and help preserve the narrative testimony of participants in
this phenomenon. As a class we will explore how individuals and communities
define themselves their region and nation through the research lenses of literature, film, the arts, gender, education, training, sustainability,
health, neoprohibition, business practices, politics, geography, and
regional food attitudes.
Course Control Number: 02041
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Previous ROHO Faculty classes:
- American Studies 110: Cultural Terroir: Defining Self and Region with Food and Wine with select student interviews available online [Fall 2006]
Studies 110: (Fall 2004)
- American Studies 110: Special Topics in American Studies.
"Voices In the Forest: A Look at 20th Century California Forestry.
Taught by ROHO Academic Specalist Victor W. Geraci, PhD.
- History 124A: (Fall 2004)
24 : Town and Gown--Investigating the History
of the Berkeley Campus and Community (Spring 2003)
100 : Documenting the History of Health Care in
California (Spring 2003)
- History 100: Changing History: Women at Berkeley [Spring 2005, Rubens]
103R : American Lives, American History: Oral
History and the Understanding of Social Change (Spring