ENGL 299 E: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Natural Sciences

"Nutrition & Questions of Public Health” will guide you in exploring some of the issues you learn about in NUTR 200 through writing projects that ask questions about access, food (in)security, and the impacts of insufficient nutrition and malnutrition as well as explores current and developing mutual aid projects around nutrition, issues of food sovereignty, and the science of food.  Whether you intend on a major in nutrition, related science fields, or public health, or you just want to focus on writing in a small intellectual community, this course will offer you opportunities to hone your rhetorical skills. You'll write three “major papers” and a lot of informal responses. And you will have the opportunity to conference your rough draft of each “major paper” with me and your classmates before submitting a final draft.

Our Sequences

1. Food Security/Insecurity, Government Programs, & Mutual Aid
2. Food Sovereignty: Who Has Control?
3. The Science of Food

Goals

• To help you develop your abilities to read, think, and write critically and interdisciplinarily about issues of nutrition and society. By the end of this course, I hope you will have developed your capacity to interrogate ideas and norms through writing, particularly in terms of food justice, nutrition, and public health.
• To provide occasions for you to draw connections between some of the concepts and issues in NUTR 200 and problems/concerns you care about.
• To guide you in accurately assessing your own and your peers' work in relation to our specific writing criteria.
• To practice collaborative, publicly-engaged composition in a time of social distancing and public health turmoil.