Sign up for our new University of Winnipeg field course:

The Manitoba Food History Truck!

HIST-3504

2 weeks. 3 credit hours. No prerequisites.

Spring Session – 2019

Mon–Fri, May 6-17, 2019.

Registration opens March 2019 — see https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/.

This course provides an introduction to food history, oral history, and public history. Students will conduct oral history interviews on the Manitoba Food History Truck, process them for archival deposit, and produce a public history project for possible publication.

The first week of this course will be taught in classrooms at the University of Winnipeg (5 classes of 3 hours each). Students will be divided into small groups for the second week, with instruction time of approximately 6 hours per day, to participate in field research trips, conduct archival research, and do research on the Manitoba Food History Truck.