Food ethics

About this programme

And to those who have been admitted to the course - registration in LADOK is now open, please register before the start of the course on 30 Sep. Please familiarise yourself with the schedule available via TimeEdit . Note that this is a distance course with obligatory seminars during the day. The course is currently full, so if you have decided not to take your place on the course, please cancel your admission via www.universityadmissions.se / www.antagning.se or in LADOK . This makes your place available to other interested students on the reserve list. The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest. The aim of the course is that students, independent of previous competence, improve their ethical skills, both in a general sense and in relation to food issues. After completion of the course, the student shall be able to identify ethical issues in the food chain, to reflect upon them from different perspectives, and to show acquaintance with how to use standard normative ethical theories in ethical analysis of the food chain. Further, the aim of the course is to create opportunities for practicing ethical argumentation and deliberation with peers, both verbally and while producing shorter texts, in order to be able to argue for a certain position in accordance with basic argumentations rules such as consistency, coherence and relevance. The content of the course is structured along the food chain – from production and distribution to consumption and waste. Ethica