SNAP Challenge in the communication classroom

Abstract

Courses Health Communication, Gender Communication, Communication and Food, Communication and Diversity, Ethnography, Critical/Cultural Studies, or Qualitative Methods

Objectives

• Explain, assess, and critique the social, cultural, and political discourses related to food.

• Analyze how communication about food reflects and influences issues of inequality.

• Examine and alter damaging racist, sexist, and classist stereotypes of low income people and SNAP recipients.

• Practice composing scholarship informed by communication theories and personal health behavior.

Notes

1. The following link provides the average amount a SNAP recipient in each state receives: https://www.cbpp.org/research/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets.