Course Schedule
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| Thursday, 9/28 |
Introduction In-Class Viewing: Food, Inc. (First Half: 45 minutes)
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Viewing Assignment: Film: Food Inc. (91 minutes) Links to an external site. Recommended Viewing: Fresh (72 minutes): Highly recommended if you were left feeling overwhelmed by Food, Inc. Access available through the Seattle Public Library on Kanopy, Links to an external site.also on Amazon Prime.
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| Tuesday, 10/3 |
Vitruvian Homer Discussion Board (Due 2:30 before class) In-Class Viewing: The Seven Deadly Sins
Links to an external site. Food, Inc. (Second Half)
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Reading Assignment: Susan Bordo, "Reading the Slender Body"
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| Thursday, 10/5 |
Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) In-Class Viewing (Short Film Clips): What is Real? (The Matrix)
Links to an external site. The Me(a)trix
Links to an external site. Food Inc. Opening Credits Links to an external site.
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Tuesday, 10/10 |
The High Cost of Cheap Food Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) In-Class Viewing: Argentina's Bad Seeds (25 Links to an external site.minutes) Links to an external site. |
Reading Assignment: Recommended Reading: The Farm Bill Platform of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Links to an external site. Recommended Viewing Assignment: Soyalism Links to an external site. (65 minutes): This film is brilliant in showing the impacts on the environment and social justice of the global expansion of the soy industry. It is, however, somewhat flawed by its tendency towards China bashing. As you watch, it is important to be aware that Smithfield (the largest meat packing corporation in the world) was already a bad actor before it was acquired by a Chinese conglomerate. How to Green the World's Deserts Links to an external site. (Ted Talk by Allan Savory. Savory's research on holistic pasture management was the inspiration of Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm as featured in Food, Inc. and also Skagit River Ranch, a local farm that is a vendor at the U District Farmer's Market on Saturdays. |
| Thursday, 10/12 |
A Body Made Productive for Capital Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) Second Hour Group Activity: Composing an advocacy letter to send to our representatives in Congress as they renegotiate the Farm Bill. Please make sure you take a look at the following link so you can see where the debate stands: The Farm Bill Platform of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Links to an external site. Advocacy Letter Work Space (google doc) Links to an external site.
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Reading Assignment: Julie Guthman and Melanie Dupuis, "Embodying Neoliberalism" "Is Dietetics a White Bread Thing?" Recommended: Naya Jones, "Dying to Eat? Black Food Geographies of Slow Violence and Resilience." Tressie Macmillan Cottom, "Ozempic Can't Fix What Our Culture Has Broken." Recommended Viewing: World Food Day, October 16: People's Food Summit Links to an external site. |
| Tuesday, 10/17 |
Slow Death Claudia's presentation has been postponed until next Tuesday. We will be doing a video response discussion instead in the second hour. Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) |
Reading Assignment: Lauren Berlant, "Risky Bigness" Sandra Cate, "'Breaking Bread with a Spread' in a San Francisco County Jail." NYT: "Peak Season for Tamales" (Featuring our awesome special guest Claudia Serrato) Recommended: Impact Justice Report of Prison Food
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| Thursday, 10/19 |
Eat This! Don't Eat That! Dietary Recommendations as Biopower Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) Navigating the Food Landscape Workspace Links to an external site.
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Reading Assignment: Marion Nestle, "Politics versus Science," and "Deconstructing Dietary Advice." Recommended: Industry Influence on Dietary Policy (article from the Guardian) Corporate Capture (the study on which the Guardian article is based): this article focuses on "the commercial determinants of health." |
| Tuesday, 10/24 |
Enterprising Selves Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) Prison Cuisine: A research-based presentation by Claudia Serrato Class will be on campus today, but I have created a zoom link to allow Claudia to participate from Los Angeles. She will begin at 2:30. Zoom Links to an external site. recording (this will only be for Claudia's presentation).
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Reading Assignment: Nikolas Rose, "Governing Enterprising Individuals."
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| Thursday, 10/26 |
Diet Wars and The Calorie as a Technology of Self-Governance Powerpoint (Today's discussion will be on Rose. The discussion of Hite will be included in the ppt for next Tuesday) Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) In-Class Viewing: Diet Wars (60 minutes) You can access a transcript of the film here Links to an external site.. You can find the film online in chunks on Daily Motion: Part 1 Links to an external site. Part 2 Links to an external site. Part 3 Links to an external site. Part 4 Links to an external site. Part 5 Links to an external site.
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Reading Assignment: Recommended: Dietary Guidelines for Americans (Executive Summary) (2020-25) Links to an external site. Wash Post Op Ed on the new guidelines. From the News Stream: |
| Tuesday, 10/31 |
Good Science, Bad Science? Please note: This powerpoint also has the slides relating to the Hite reading. Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) Campus Food Advocacy Work Space Links to an external site.
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Reading Assignment: Gary Taubes, "What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie." Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens, Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies. Links to an external site. Recommended: Ultra Processed Food and the Corporate Capture of Nutrition. Links to an external site. (a critique of the energy-balance model) FoodGate: The Break-in, the Cover-up, and the Aftermath. Links to an external site. This is a fascinating lecture by scholars at UCLA, based on the documentary evidence of how the food industry has rigged the dietary guidelines to absolve sugar as a major culprit in metabolic disease. |
| Thursday, 11/2 |
School Food is Industrial Food Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) In Class Viewing: Jamie Oliver's School Food Revolution Links to an external site. Season 1, Episode 1 (watch footage: 2:12-17:00, 29:20-37:00) |
Reading Assignment: Janet Poppendieck, Free for All Links to an external site. (Intro and Chapter One) Ebook through UW Library Portal. Slocum et al., "Properly with Love, From Scratch." (This is an excellent critique of Jamie Oliver's School Food Revolution)
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| Monday, 11/6 |
Re-Membering Relationships of Trust between Sheep and Diné People: One Butchering at a Time. Dr. Christine Ami Links to an external site. (Associate Professor, Diné College) on Monday November 6 from 4:30-5pm in CMU 120.
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Recommended Event: Dr. Ami brings an indigenous perspective to the relationship between the Diné and the animals they raise for food in terms of how they view animal agency and their responsibility to them in life and death. Sponsored by the Critical Animal Studies Research Group. Maria-Elena Garcia (CHID) and Radhika Govindgrajan (Anthro) |
| Tuesday, 11/7 |
Office Hours and Paper Check In on Zoom No in-person class. Zoom Link Links to an external site.
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You are welcome to drop by the regular zoom meeting with your questions regarding the first paper (due Friday midnight).
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| Thursday, 11/9 |
The Paradox of Free and Reduced Lunch Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) Small Group Discussion Workspace Links to an external site.
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Reading Assignment: Poppendieck Links to an external site. ( Chapters Five and Seven)
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| Friday, 11/10 |
First Paper Due by Midnight on Canvas: Submit here |
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| Tuesday, 11/14 |
Local Heroes Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) In-class Viewing (Short Film Clips): School Lunch in France
Links to an external site. School Lunch in Italy Links to an external site. (watch footage 2:10-24.23) Google Doc Exercise: Links to an external site. Using "food view" as a tool for critical analysis. |
Reading Assignment: Poppendieck Links to an external site. (Chapter Eight) Black Links to an external site. ("Revenge of the Lunch Lady") Black, "The Triumph of Jamie Oliver's Nemesis." Links to an external site. How Alice Gue became a school food reformer. Supplementary Resources: Edible Schoolyar Links to an external site.d Project Links to an external site. Edible Education 101 Links to an external site. (This UC Berkeley Freshman Course has recorded presentations by many of the luminaries of the Food Change Movement). |
| Thursday, 11/16 |
A Bone of Contention: How Did School Gardens Become Political? Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) In-Class Viewing: Growing Hope in the Urban Center Links to an external site.
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Reading Assignment Caitlin Flanagan, Cultivating Failure How Garden-Based Learning Helps Students of Color. Links to an external site. Links to an external site. Links to an external site. Recommended: Indigenous Foodways are the Focus in a Growing Number of Classrooms. Links to an external site. Supplementary Resources: Links to an external site.Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl, " Links to an external site.Gardens Cultivate Minds not Failure" Links to an external site. Green School Initiative, "Cultivating Healthy, Lifelong Learners." Links to an external site. Good News Corner: Reconnecting with Ancestral Cuisines Southern Exposure Links to an external site.: the preservation of African American history in seeds. A local story: Links to an external site. BIPOC Farmers producing hard-to-find vegetables for immigrant cuisines. A guest podcast by our own Claudia Serrato on decolonizing the diet. Links to an external site.
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| Tuesday, 11/21 |
Ethical Eaters Class will be on Zoom today: Zoom Recording Links to an external site.: Please note that this lecture will be very helpful in planning out your final paper meal project. Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) |
Reading Assignment: Judith Farquhar, "Food, Eating, and the Good Life."
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| Thursday, 11/23 |
Thanksgiving Holiday (no class) |
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| Tuesday, 11/28 |
Punk Cuisine Discussion Board (Due by 2:30)
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Reading Assignment: Dylan Clark, "The Raw and the Rotten."
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| Thursday, 11/30 |
Paleo Fitness Discussion Board(Due by 2:30) In Class Viewing: Gather Links to an external site. (75 minutes) |
Reading Assignment: Is an All Meat Diet What Nature Intended? Links to an external site.Valasquez-Manoff Recommended Viewing: My Big Fat Diet (45 minutes): This film describes what happens when an indigenous community on Vancouver Island return to their traditional diet to reverse metabolic disease. This film is available online, but it is cut up into chunks. :( Part I Links to an external site. Part 2 Links to an external site. Links to an external site.Part 3 Links to an external site. Part 4 Links to an external site. Part 5 Links to an external site. Recommended Reading: "Friend or Foe? The Role of Animal Source Foods in Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Diets." |
| Tuesday, 12/5 |
Pre-Industrial Diet Powerpoint Discussion Board (Due by 2:30) I will be bringing some samples of the "sacred foods" of the pre-industrial diet for students to taste. I like to describe these foods as the foods we have forgotten to remember to eat! LOL
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| Thursday, 12/7 |
Office Hours and Paper Check In on Zoom No in-person class. Zoom Link Links to an external site.
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You are welcome to drop by the zoom meeting with your questions regarding the first paper due the following Monday. |
| Monday, Dec 11 |
Final Paper Due by Midnight on Canvas. Submit here. |
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