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Food for Thought

Welcome. This page provides a continually updated list of links to materials created in "Food for Thought," a first-semester seminar offered @ Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2009. Feel free to browse and comment in the associated online forums. For more information about the course , please see the syllabus and its multiple linked pages.

Notes for Day 25: What has changed?
I. Course Evaluations
II. Sign ups for next week:
Tuesday's class cancelled for group conferences;
Final performances on Thursday
III. Review of checklist, final portfolio
By 12:30 p.m. Friday, December 18:
Final portfolio, including

Notes Towards Day 24: Re-envisioning
Notes Towards Day 24: Re-envisioning
I. Welcome back from Thanksgiving--
any relevant stories?
(my unhappy nephews...
and thoughts re: revising college)
II. Thursday: come ready to do course evaluations,
sign-ups for group conferences
and sign-ups for final performances

Notes Towards Day 23: The Dog and its Tail
Notes Towards Day 23: The Dog and its Tail
I. coursekeeping
let's hear your stories: what's it like, working together?
what works, what doesn't work so well, in this process?
how can we fiddle w/ it?
looking @ one critique
no reading assignments for week after Thanksgiving;
will e-mail you if I come across anything you should read;
come to class ready to draft w/ your group
the opening paragraph of your upcoming paper:
your re-envisioned mission-or-vision,

Notes Towards Day 21: Imagining a New Curriculum
Notes Towards Day 21 of Food for Thought:
Imagining a New Curriculum

Notes Towards Day 20: Zero-Sum or Not?
Notes Towards Day 20 of Food for Thought
I. Coursekeeping
by 9 a.m. on Mon: Post in our on-line course forum a one-paragraph analysis of
the findings of your initial research into ONE dimension (economic? psychological?
historical? cross-cultural?) of designing a college curriculum.
Support that analysis w/ an annotated bibliography of 3 web sources.
for class on Tues, DON'T read

Notes Towards Day 19: Curricular Choice-Making
Notes Towards Day 19 of Food for Thought
I. start w/ sharing:
what'd I miss on Thursday?
(do you want to plan another shared class?
shared final performances, maybe??)
how 'bout Kate Bornstein's visit?
what you missed @ SLSA:
Encoding to Decoding to Transformation
Coding for "Possibility Spaces"

Notes Towards Day 16: Beginning Prodigal Summer
Beginnning Prodigal Summer
II. We'll continue discussing the novel all next week--
what snagged/grabbed you?
what puzzled/irritated you?
(THAT's the opening gambit for your paper...
what you DON'T understand....)

Notes Towards Day 15: Literary Interpretation
Literary Interpretation, or
"It's Hard to See the Forest When You're a Tree"

Photo Archive
Archive of Class Photos
Field Trip to Pete's Produce (September 19, 2009)
Interpreting One Another's Data (October 21, 2009)
Final Performances (December 10, 2009)

Photo Archive
Archive of Class Photos
Field Trip to Pete's Produce (September 19, 2009)
Interpreting One Another's Data (October 21, 2009)

Notes Towards Day 14: Thinking some more about the interpretation of data
DID YOU BRING YOUR LAPTOP??
IF NOT PLEASE RUN AND FETCH IT NOW..
Notes Towards Day 14: Thinking some more about the interpretation of data

Notes Towards Day 13--Presenting and Interpreting One Another's Data
I. Welcome back!
any relevant stories (about making unconscious choices, say....) over break?
Just in from Peter's Behavioral Endocrinology class: Natural Attraction, "a science based company" that sells human pheromones, marketed both to gay men and to heterosexual men and women (where are the lesbians in this picture....?)

Nudging Ourselves and Others Towards Day 12
Nudging Ourselves and Others Towards Day 12--and Fall Break!
I. coursekeeping
anyone attend/want to report on "Sex, Politics, and Cancer: The Future of the HPV Vaccine"?
what to report on the process of identifying your subject group & generating 5 questions?
can you begin to imagine how you might present the data you'll be gathering?
will your surveys function as nudges? might you think about introducing some??

Notes Towards Day 11: On Becoming Students of Error
Notes Towards Day 11: On Becoming Students of Error
I. coursekeeping

Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"
Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"
I. coursekeeping
those papers due Fri? reporting in on topic-defining, progress in researching....?
3-pp. paper reporting on current studies done on your health choice:
how are most college students handling the choice you are confronting?
how best to present the information you find?
find three web sources; look @ HOW they present the info (causes? correlations?

Notes Towards Day 9: The Paradox of Choice
Notes Towards Day 9
I. Start by taking three surveys from The Paradox of Choice:
*are you a maximizer or a satisficer? (p.80)
*the regret scale (p.87)
*the subjective happiness scale (p. 196)
can we chart the correlations?