Room for Everybody



Notes for Workshop for College Seminar Faculty
Bryn Mawr College
Anne Dalke
August 26, 2008

What I Do On-Line

CSem Syllabi: linking, updating, archiving

* Questions, Intuitions, Revisions

* Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma

Notes for Day 1 of Food for Thought

I. Welcome!--to feast that is BMC and CSem

II. Begin by getting to know one another:
Go round, say your name and
tell us a story about one of your favorite foods
(something familiar, something surprising?
what it tastes like/where you ate it/with whom/why)

a sample of what will happen here/outside of here/seeded here,
for next 14 weeks: a conversation among ourselves
we are a various group, with varied experiences; 
we come from various places and we know different things

our first obligation here is to say what we know:

Archive of Class Notes for Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma

Day One: Introduction to the course--from food to philosophy

Day Two: "Our National Eating Disorder" (Pollan, pp. 1-31, 85-99)

Day Three: "Big Organic" (Pollan, pp. 134-184)

Notes for Day 2 of Critical Feminist Studies

Woman's Education, Professionalization...and War-Making?
Reading Virginia Woolf's 1938 essays, Three Guineas

Critical Feminist Studies: An Introduction

Day One: Welcome to the Dinner Party!

  Notes for Day 1 of Critical Feminist Studies

Depression From the Inside