Connections or FYS Course Ideas

A course about education and higher-education, in particular. This article could be the springboard for so many conversation and investigations.

Here's a book we could read.

FYS

Where does food come from? What's for dinner?

Take a meal and find out where it came from.

Materials: King Corn and Barbara Kingsolver
Project:

Book of Choice (cod, tomato, etc.)

Where does our food come from? (Fast Food Nation)

What is what we're eating doing to us? (?)

Units:

1. What's for dinner?
2. Where does dinner come from? (Fast Food Nation and Corn King)
3. What is dinner doing to or for us?
4. What else might we eat for dinner?

Find a list of other documentaries about food.
Find an academic article from different fields about each of these issues (perhaps enlist Carol Cummings?).