Archive of Class Notes, Food for Thought '09

Archive of Class Notes for Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma ('09)

Day One: Introduction to the course--from food to philosophy

Day Two: Our National Eating Disorder

Day Three: Big Organic

Day Four: The Ethics of Eating Animals

Day Five: Changing Human Nature?

Day Six: Changing Education

Day Seven: What is Health?

Day Eight: What are the Odds?

Day Nine: The Paradox of Choice

Day Ten: "Allow for Serendipity"

Day Eleven: On Becoming Students of Error

Day Twelve: Nudging Ourselves and Others

Day Thirteen: Presenting and Interpreting One Another's Data

Day Fourteen: Thinking some more about the interpretation of data

Day Fifteen: Literary Interpretation

Day Sixteen: Beginning Prodigal Summer

Day Seventeen: Continuing Prodigal Summer

Day Eighteen: Anne Gone Fishin'

Day Nineteen: Curricular Choice-Making

Day Twenty: Zero-Sum or Not?

Day 21: Imagining a New Curriculum

Day 22: Evaluating Bryn Mawr's Current Curriculum

Day 23: The Dog and its Tail

Day 24: Re-envisioning

Day 25: What Has Changed?