The assignments will give you experience through a variety of academic and applied exercises like those you will encounter regularly in many of your other classes. These exercises are particularly focused on reading and thinking critically, and on articulating your ideas clearly in discussion, in oral presentations, and in your writing. We will use the broad topic of food to explore the strong interdisciplinary connections that are often required to understand complex issues important to individuals and to society. In that exploration we will often consider the cross-cultural and international dimensions of the issues that arise in order to appreciate the role that our particular experience plays in shaping our understanding of them and to arrive at personal or policy decisions that are based on a broader understanding. We will consider decisions by individuals, corporations, and governments, and their impact on the health and welfare of people and socie ties .
Small groups analyze food advertisements and present their results.
It may be useful to form some teams to investigate a single question in order to get data from multiple observers. Make notes for use in class tomorrow. For the first part of class on Friday we will discuss what we already know about grocery stores and what kinds of observations would be most useful. The posters will be presented at the beginning of class on Thursday, September 2nd. Members of the team will take turns with the poster to explain it to others.