2024 Summer ENGLISH R1A 001 LEC 001

2024 Summer Session D 6 weeks, July 1 - August 9

ENGLISH R1A 001 - LEC 001

Reading and Composition

Choice Cuts: Writing About Food

Max Stevenson

Jul 01, 2024 - Aug 09, 2024
Tu, We, Th
02:30 pm - 04:59 pm
Class #:14500
Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through English

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 5
Enrolled: 12
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 17
Waitlist Max: 5
No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

7.5 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 22.5 hours of outside work hours per week.

Course Catalog Description

Training in writing expository prose. Instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.

Class Description

Our course begins with Terry Eagleton’s assertion that “food looks like an object but is actually a relationship, and the same is true of literary works” and moves to consider that relationship in texts as varied as medieval French fabliaux and twentieth century Japanese cinema. Authors we will study include Plutarch, Virginia Woolf, M. F. K. Fisher, Monique Truong, Pu Song Ling, Chang-rae Lee, and many others; the topics we’ll cover range from the ethics of vegetarianism to the politics of cannibalism, from the particular formal difficulty of representing taste in words to hunger’s connection with other carnal desires. In addition to the traditionally literary modes of prose fiction, poetry, and the personal essay, we will also read restaurant reviews, political manifestos, journalistic reportage, and cultural criticism, and will learn to read meals themselves.

Rules & Requirements

Requisites

  • Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills

First half of the Reading and Composition Requirement

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

Associated Sections

None