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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 22460
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 313
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
This course explores food as a cultural metaphor, as a means to connect, create, and sustain family and tradition. It is also a venue to examine history through a culinary lens. In this class we question our assumptions about how food is grown, raised and prepared. What is organic? What is “junk”? Gourmet? Who decides? Who has access to food? Where and what are “food deserts”? There is also a community component, involving field trips to local eateries, work with BrightSide, and a drive for local food shelves. Fiction for this course may include: THE MISTRESS OF SPICES by Chitra Divakaruni, MY YEAR OF MEATS by Ruth Ozeki, Laura Esquivel’s LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, CHOP CHOP by Simon Wroe, or NUMBER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT by Lillian Li. The texts, along with the issues discussed in class, will range from the personal to the political: from essays by Michael Pollan and Vandana Shiva, to poetic odes from THE HUNGRY EAR, to personal accounts of Julia Childs’ challenges as a female chef, to French chef Auguste Escoffier’s connection to food and war, to contemporary accusations of “food pornography” and “gluttony” leveled at The Food Network. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Intensive requirement.
4 Credits