Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2015-2016
FWIS 103 - RHETORIC OF FOOD
Long Title: RHETORIC OF FOOD
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
May not be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Description: Food has historically been deeply symbolic. This course explores historical and current cases of food as persuasion. How are food choices ethically implicated and how are those implications addressed persuasively? Surveying readings that analyze and also exemplify the class will ask how and why food is communicatively constructed.
Course URL: http://pwc.rice.edu/