The Lion Co-op provides multiple research and course opportunities to Missouri Southern undergraduates and graduates interested in hands-on, interdisciplinary learning. Talk to your academic advisor if you are interested in taking one of our courses.
488 Courses
The Lion Co-op offers courses for undergraduates who are interested in immersive classroom experiences with a focus on nutrition security and non-profit skills. Currently, a cross-listed course, HIST/KINE 488: Nutrition, Wellness, and the Social Determinants of Health, explores the historical evolution of concepts of nutrition and wellness, as well as the social determinants of health. Students analyze how Americans’ understanding of what it means to be well has changed over time and how it is often intertwined with cultural values such as class, race, gender, and religion. Ultimately, students will explore how these concepts of wellness inform responses to the problem of food insecurity in American society and in the Four States region.
The course also provides students with research, community engagement, and service learning opportunities through the Co-op’s non-profit setting.
JS 588: Food, Nutrition, and Social Justice
This graduate-level course is part of the Justice Studies program, but can also be used as KINE or HIST content hours for students enrolled in other graduate programs.
In this course students investigate the relationship between wellness and social justice issues. Students will explore how historical factors have shaped Americans’ current attitudes toward and access to wellness by exploring how understandings of what it means to be well have changed over time and have often been intertwined with issues such as class, race, gender, and religion.
This is an interdisciplinary course where students will be familiarized with the disciplinary methods of both history and kinesiology as they relate to the study of food, nutrition, and social justice.
Because this is a Lion Co-op Experiential Learning course, it will provide students with community engagement and service learning opportunities focused on health and wellness.
