HON 326 - Writing Food Culture

Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. Food is increasingly surfacing to the foreground of cultural studies and various modes of writing and activism as an especially multifaceted and vital theme intersecting crucial issues of identity, culture, and environment. This course focuses on food writing across multiple genres of expression and its evolution over time across media and national borders. In response to their engagement with significant texts related to food, its production and consumption, students will compose creative and critical writing projects. Discussion-based seminar and writing workshop. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits