Food for Thought course

Notes towards Day 24: Re-writing Ahab's Wife

I. relevant tales (about choice?) from your travels?
report from my teacher ed mtg. w/ certification candidates
& their on-site supervisors:
certitude of h.s. boys, self-doubt of girls....
"does this count?"...
a paradigm shift here?

II. coursekeeping
last round of individual conferences this/next week:
come ready to do some reflective work with me/
overview of the whole semester's writing

for Thurs: read Chs. 38-54 (pp. 209-253) of Ahab's Wife

Notes Towards Day 23 of
Food for Thought:
Revising (Moby-Dick and your papers)

I. Coursekeeping: reviewing the remaining
(two weeks?!) of the semester

Tues, Dec. 2 & Thurs. Dec. 4
Chapters 29-37 & 38-54 of Ahab’s Wife

Fri, Dec. 5: Collaboratively-written 6 pp. paper
in which you creatively re-frame an ethical dilemma
two exercises upcoming today to help w/ this process;

Checklist For Your Final Portfolio College Seminar Bryn Mawr College Fall 2008   Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma

Instructions for Preparing Your Final Portfolio College Seminar Bryn Mawr College Fall 2008 Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma

From What is Art For?
In the late 1990s, Hyde began extending his lifelong project of examining “the public life of the imagination” into what had become newly topical territory: the “cultural commons.”

a corporate “land grab” of information... has put a stranglehold on creativity, in increasingly bizarre ways.

We may believe there should be a limit on the market in cultural property, he argues, but that doesn’t mean that we have “a good public sense” of where to set that limit. Hyde’s book is, at its core, an attempt to help formulate that sense.

Notes Towards Day 21 of Food for Thought
The Choice to Cannabalize or Socialize?

I. You Tube on the Milgram Experiment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w

Notes Towards Day 22 of Food for Thought:
The Dog and its Tail

I. Coursekeeping
Friday @ 5 p.m.: 3-pp. collaborative proposals due-->
Submit a joint report on your evolving task:
what your (now shared) question is,
what your gut responses are to the range of possible answers,
how you will tackle the project, and who will do what
(include bibliography).

Notes Towards Day 20 of Food for Thought

I. Playing Prisoners' Dilemma: what happened?

theoretically: a non-zero-sum experience, in which
the best strategy increases your partner's pay-off
how to maximize one's own pay-off depends on partner;
there's no single best strategy