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
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