- Winter 2017
Syllabus Description:
Tentative Class Schedule:
1/4: Introduction
The Biopolitics of Obesity
1/9: Vitruvian Homer
Reading: Bordo
1/11: Film: Food Inc. (91 minutes)
Reading: Patel
1/16: Martin Luther King Day (no class)
1/18: The High Cost of Cheap Food
Short Assignment: Film Reflection
1/23: A Body Made Productive for Capital
Reading: Guthman and Dupuis
1/25: Slow Death
Reading: Berlant; Cate
1/30: Eat This! Don’t Eat That!
Reading: Nestle
2/1: The New Health Consumer
Reading: Rose
Short Assignment: Your Food Pyramid
2/6: Film: Frontline Diet Wars (60 minutes)
Reading: Hite et al.
2/8: The Health Blogosphere
Reading: Taubes
Online research
School Food
2/13: School Food Is Industrial Food
Reading: Poppendieck (Intro and Chapter 1)
Assignment Due: Online Research Report (course dropbox)
2/15: The Paradox of Free and Reduced Lunch
Reading: Poppendieck (Chapters 5 & 7)
2/20: President’s Day (no class)
2/22: The Edible Schoolyard
Reading: Poppendieck (Chapter 8)
Flanagan http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/cultivating-failure/307819/
Assignment Due: School Lunch Memoir (course dropbox)
Ethical Eaters
2/27: Experiments in Urban Food Sovereignty
Reading: Novella Carpenter (entire book)
3/1: Punk Cuisine
Reading: Clark
3/6: Paleo fitness: My Big Fat Diet (45 minutes)
Carerra-Bastos
Good Magazine http://www.good.is/post/good-asks-the-experts-is-the-paleolithic-diet-really-better/?utm_source=supr
3/8: Reclaiming the Pre-Industrial Diet
Anagnost http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/2/274.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=ofzIFcOmNqhD0iB
March 16: Final Paper Due: Essay on Ethical Eating