Schedule: 

Week 1 – Intro: Food Systems: Brands, Innovations, and Technology

Mar 17: 

• In Class Resources:
• Fortune 500 List -- and -- Global 500 List: Class Activity on Global 500
• Infographics from Class: World Food Consumption and Cost of 1000 Calories Globally
• Tech Skills: Library Research Resources: http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/
• Readings:
• Moss, Michael. 2013. Salt, Sugar, Fat: Prologue and Chapters 1-4.
• optional skim: Wyman, Carolyn. 2004. Better than Homemade: Amazing Foods that Changed the Way We Eat. Intro chapter is also posted here, or skim the Google Books version: http://books.google.com/books/about/Better_Than_Homemade.html?id=VgG9e8-r42oC
• Take Home Exercise: Brand History (due 3/30)

Week 2 – Spring Break

Week 3 – Disruptive Technologies in the Food Industry

           Mar 31: 

• In Class Resources:
• History of Food Conservation Slide
  
• Tech Skills: Academic Search Premier Databases -- Voyant Visualizations/Corporate Discourse Map 
• Readings:
• Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: Introduction and Chapters 2-7.
• Take Home Exercise: Voyant Visualizations on Discourse Map (due 4/6) 

Week 4 – Food and Risk: Health 

Apr 7: 

• In Class Resources:
• Tech Skills: Intro to easel.ly -- Exercise with Facts About Illinois Agriculture
• Reading:
• Nestle, Marion. 2010. Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety -- Part 1 and Part 2: Read Prefaces to 2010 and Original edition, Introduction, Ch. 1 and Ch. 3.
• Take Home Exercise: Illinois Infographic (due 4/13) 

Week 5 – Food and Risk: Environment

Apr 14: MONSANTO VISIT

• Reading:
• Film: Super Size Me, Banana Wars, Taste of Waste
• Rampton and Stauber, Trust Us, We're Experts. 
• Take Home Exercise: Inforgx 2 Brand Impact (due 4/20)
  

Week 6 -- Organics Markets / Food and Education 

Apr 21: BLUE MOON FARM and PRAIRIE FRUITS FARM VISITS

• Reading:
• Hirschfeld, Gary. 2008. Stirring It Up: pages 1-121 and 161-172. 
• Take Home Exercise: Stirring It Up Reaction (due 4/27)

Week 7 – Slow Food, Global and Local Markets 

Apr 28: 

• In Class Resources:
• Infogxs share
• Film: Food, Inc.

• Reading:
• Andrews, Geoff. The Slow Food Story: Chapters 2 and 5
• Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Part 2.

Week 8  –  May 5: Essays/Presentations In Class

* Travel Dates: MAY 18-26 -- Schedule TBA