ENGL 299 - Writing in the Natural Sciences is a small writing seminar linked with both ENVIR 240 - The Urban Farm and NUTR 302 - Food Systems: Harvest to Health. If you are enrolled in EITHER ENVIR 240 or NUTR 302, then you are eligible to take ENGL 299!
ENGL 299 is a small (21 students max) seminar that earns either C or W credit, whichever you need. In the writing course we will take inspiration from the two linked lectures and do research on our own to develop projects on topics of your choice related to food production and its myriad interrelated issues. These projects will ask you to read, think, and write about foodways, communities (urban and otherwise), food policy and justice, and all the ways that various systems can sustain or inhibit nutritional health.
Through three major assignment sequences– a genre translation project, an oral family food history, and finally a scholarly book chapter– you will explore various research processes and learn from different communities in order to communicate with a variety of audiences about a farming or food topic of your choice. Our final book chapters will contribute to an open-access book project. The instructor, Megan Callow, is an experienced writing teacher and an inexperienced but passionate urban farmer who will be learning alongside you. Please email her with any questions! mcallow@uw.edu.