課程簡介

中文課程名稱：食用昆蟲
英文課程名稱：Edible Insects
授課教師：Matan Shelomi (薛馬坦)
學分數：0 學分
開課單位：Department of Entomology
建立日期：2023 年 2 月

課程概述

This English language course covers the science and sociology of insects as food and feed. Increasing media, investment, and public policy attention has been given over the years to the role insects may play in the future of food. Can eating insects really save the world from famine and environmental destruction? Are there health costs or benefits to adding insects to the diet? Will all people accept insects as food? Can we feed them to livestock? Should we be promoting edible insects at all, and if so, how best do we do it? What species will we eat and how shall we raise them? This class examines all aspects of edible insects, with students taught a broad but thorough overview of the field and asked to consider questions in class about what role they think insects will play in their own food futures, and why they think this way.

課程目標

By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Think critically about why we eat certain things and not others, and the cultural influences that shape these views.
- Describe and evaluate the arguments driving the edible insect movement.
- Be able to apply Diffusion of Innovations theory to food-related innovations.
- Know examples of edible insects and other insect products worldwide.
- Understand in what directions the edible insect field is going, and perhaps decide what role they want to play in it.
- Create a fictional, edible insect product and design an effective advertisement for it.