Course Summary

Are you interested in Food? Do you want to influence people through food? Food Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of food, with an emphasis on extending food knowledge and skills and building individual pathways to health and wellbeing through the application of practical food skills. You’ll study the past and present patterns of eating, Australian and global food production systems and the many physical and social functions and roles of food.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

• Develop practical food skills in the planning, preparation, evaluation and enjoyment of food
• Demonstrate principles and practices that ensure the safety of food
• Apply principles of nutrition, food science and sensory evaluation to food planning and preparation
• Investigate global and local systems of food production, distribution and governance including what influences food choices
• Research and discuss issues relating to economic, environmental and ethical dimensions of our food system