Lunar New Year begins on January 31st. It will then be the year of the horse.
Your extra credit assignment is to find out about Lunar New Year and how a specific ethnic group celebrates it.
Lunar New Year begins on January 31st. It will then be the year of the horse.
Your extra credit assignment is to find out about Lunar New Year and how a specific ethnic group celebrates it.
You will work in groups to develop a multi-component study of one New York City neighborhood. Each group will be responsible for producing a project that includes all of the following:
– A workplan describing who will complete each component of the project and when
– An annotated bibliography
– A statistical profile of the neighborhood’s current and past populations
– A qualitative observation of the neighborhood
– A menu representing the social and culinary history of the neighborhood
– A essay and website
You will review a piece of creative work that related to the class themes of immigration, identity, and food. Examples of creative work include films, museum exhibits, restaurants, and novels. Your review should be approximately 800 words and posted to the course website.
Using food voice narratives from Gastropolis as examples, you will develop a food voice narrative that reflects on your identity and family history.
Please post questions about the readings before class and be sure to categorize them as “Question on the Reading”. As part of your class participation, you are required to post at least one question about the readings for five weeks over the course of the semester.