Food for Thought course

Notes Towards Day 19 of Food for Thought

I. to share:
story from working group on "choices & constraints":
Choosing Our Limits
quotes from Andrea Zittel: take one and write a response

II. Moving on now to final section of the course,
on ethical choice-making
Bring home exploration of eating habits,
scientific data-gathering, literary interpretation,
to questions about how we live our lives

Nudging Our Way Towards Day 11, Food for Thought

I. coursekeeping
clarifying conference schedule (w/ break)
Thursday's class: "Caterpillars Make Choices," with Wil Franklin

By classtime on Thursday, post on-line
1) the 5 questions you will use in your survey
2) a description of your subject group
spend some time thinking about how to ask your questions
so you can put a value on the answers (for ex: use a scale, 1-5)

those of you who will be gathering mostly "qualitative" data,
(i.e. interviewing counselors, coaches, deans) can still

Notes Towards Day 9

I. Start by taking three surveys from The Paradox of Choice:
*are you a maximizer or a satisficer? (p.80)
*the regret scale (p.87)
*the subjective happiness scale (p. 196)
can we chart the correlations?

Notes Towards Day 8 of Food for Thought

I. coursekeeping
naming
writing (papers due @ 5 tomorrow)
reading for next Tuesday: first part (75 pp.) of
The Paradox of Choice, by Swat pysch prof Barry Schwartz;
popular version of the scientific dilemma we've been chasing this week--
Schwartz generalizes the problem

II. (nonsensical-to-me) observation
from one of y'day's conferences:
"I don't know how I'm doing..."
(reminiscent of the joke re:
two object-relations psychologists, making love:
"How was it for me?")

Roster for Critical Feminist Studies, Fall 2008

Emily Bock
Kendalyn Brown
Charlie Caplan
Raina Chauhan
Rebecca Findlay
Hope Fillingim
Eve Gleichman
Dawn Hathaway
Amanda Hittson
Sarah Kaufman
Sonal Kumar
Julia Lustick
Alexandra Norton
Laura Perry
Hilary Polak
Melissa Pottash
Sarina Schwartz
Katie Scire
Sarah Sherman
Stephanie Smith
Janet Zarate

Notes towards Day 7 of Food for Thought

I. Coursekeeping
naming: who's game?
posting: Anna, Steph?
reading: (ignore the pps. re: caterpillars making choices--
the caterpillars aren't ready yet! Wil Franklin is growing them,
will come in two weeks...)
read Lisa Belkin's "02 NYTimes essay on coincidence--
like today's readings, about the tendency of all of us
to look for patterns where there may be none
writing for Friday:

Notes towards Day 6 of Food for Thought

I. Coursekeeping
keep-on-naming-gaming
papers for Emily, Sara
problems/coaching for: logging in? Anna? Stephanie? Anonymous?
If your password isn't working, click on request new password.
If you don't know your username, you can do a Search
using your email address, then click the Users tab.

reading for Tuesday next selection in packet:
article from 9/07 New York Times Magazine about how weknow what makes us healthy
series of letters in response (looking @ what makes a conversation productive)

Notes towards Day 5 of Food for Thought

I. "Fussiness about food is a normal part of a child’s development. Young children are naturally neophobic — they have a distrust of the new." (NYTimes on "6 Food Mistakes Parents Make")
Do you think that's the case? Was it the case, in your case?

Notes for Day 4 for Food for Thought

I. coursekeeping
Pass 'round envelope for cash/checks: your packets cost $15