Interdisciplinary Arts 0111 - Primitive Comfort: Writing About Food

Food is so much of who we are. It is a basic function of staying alive, but it is also tethered to so many things that are beyond the basic and in fact can be quite sumptuous and decadent. Much can be discerned about ourselves and our priorities, our beliefs, our past, and our future, by studying how and what we eat. Where does our relationship to food become more than a basic function? How are these basic tenets of food and food culture capitalized upon and shaped by marketers and corporations? We will read a variety of writers whose work deals with these questions, and we will, by writing across the curriculum, study our personal, cultural, historical, and perhaps even mythical relationship to food. Limited to Division I Students Only. Keywords:writing program, writing

Environments and Change Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time