| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| I. Overview of Issues and Challenges | ||
| 2 | Challenges | |
| 3 | Food and culture | |
| 4 | Human welfare overview: health, hunger, and exploitation | |
| 5 | Environmental impact and animal welfare overview | |
| 6 | Moral frameworks overview | Interview analysis due |
| II. Food: More or Less | ||
| 7 | Eating the American way | |
| 8 | The distant needy | Final project service learning option proposal due |
| 9 | Ethics vs. politics of food | |
| III. Food: Conscientiously Considered | ||
| 10 |
Conscientious omnivorism? Screening: American Meat | First paper due |
| 11 | Environmentalism? | |
| 12 | Is "green agriculture" a solution? | |
| Food for Free event (volunteer opportunities available) | ||
| 13 | Is "locavorism" a solution? | Focus analysis due |
| 14 | Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) | |
| 15 |
Free trade Guest Lecturer: Daniel Fireside, Capitol Coordinator, Equal Exchange | Last day to submit revision of first paper |
| IV. Food: The Meatless Way | ||
| 16 | The vegan option | |
| 17 | Moral theory and animal warfare | |
| 18 | Pain vs. death |
Second paper due Final project media option proposal due |
| 19 | The environmental omnivore? | |
| V. Food, Ethnicity and Culture | ||
| 20 | Ethnicity and food | |
| 21 |
Food and gender Screening: FLOW: For Love of Water | |
| 22 |
Diet and obesity Screening: Gary Taubes lecture | Last day to submit revision of second paper |
| 23 | Waste | |
| 24 |
Food activism: urban agriculture | |
| 25 |
Food activism: art works Guest lecturer: Andi Sutton, Coordinator, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, MIT | Final project due |
| 26 | Student presentations of final projects | |
| 27 | Final lecture wrap-up | Third paper due |
