1. Application for Individualized Minor
Individualized Major Program Ballantine Hall 129 (812) 855-9588 imp@indiana.edu www.indiana.edu/~imp
Instructions: This form must be typed. Please do not fill it out by hand. Attach additional sheets
if needed. Print the completed form and turn it in to the IMP office along with your application
essay.
Part 1: Background Information
Student’s Name: Caroline Bratt University ID#: 0002850003
IU E-mail: cbratt@indiana.edu Phone: 408-499-2125
Date Submitted: ______________________
Expected Graduation Date (semesterand year): Fall 2014 (December)
Title of Proposed IMP Minor: Food’s Place In Society
Please list your degree objective(s), including all majors, minors, and certificates:
The objectives that the minor will be covering are the values and effects of food in our
historical and present day society. It will cover how food has played a role in cultures around the
world, and help gain new and supportive perspectives towards abstract food concepts. With better
knowledge about food, I feel better knowledge about food will allow our globe and the earthlings that
habitat on it to thrive.
Part 2: Application Essay
Food’s Place in Society will take a look at food in an interdisciplinary manner, examining
many subjects such as technology, culture, sociology, economics and history through their
relationship with food. Each culture, region, religion, and family has its own style of eating: what
type of food, how it is prepared, how it is ingested, and what production process it went through in
order to make it to the consumer. By studying these concepts about food and our world more
knowledge can be obtained on how to keep our globe healthy, our people happy and our minds open.
Food’s Place in Society mostly resembles the Anthropology of Food minor. This is because it
focuses on the studies of how food plays an important role within society and culture through
anthropological methods. This minor uses only anthropology, while the minor I am presenting takes
a broader variety of perspectives such as geography, politics, and economy to examine food. I
originally decided on Anthropology of Food minor and completed a few of its courses that I would
like to use for Food’s Place in Society because of their overlapping objectives. Furthermore, the

2. Application for Individualized Minor
Individualized Major Program Ballantine Hall 129 (812) 855-9588 imp@indiana.edu www.indiana.edu/~imp
minor would introduce specific cultures by looking at their food production, food’s spiritual role to
them, and the social rituals included in their food preparation and consumption.
The courses for the minor use food as a unifying subject and the connection it has to society.
Since food plays such a large role in every person’s life, I feel that understanding and examining
food’s place is crucial. By taking an academic and critical look of food, starting from the farms,
gardens or factories to the dining tables, offering plates or even dumps, food justice, world hunger,
and other food related issues can be better assessed and improved.
I hope to gain useful information on the way food is structured and feeds our world. Food
related issues will always reside within a society, and I feel that by turning a blind eye to it the
problems are less likely to be resolved and end up causing further more serious issues in the future.
These problems include world hunger, a sustainable environment, animal well fair, workers’ well
being, and the general public’s health. Other useful knowledge that will be gained is the reasoning
behind certain cultural practices and being able to have an understanding towards different ways of
life. The courses I chose for this minor will help build a strong empathy towards certain cultural food
practices that may be unfamiliar, along with being aware and sensitive to the system and structure
that is created around food.
I feel that this minor is a good fit for me because I have always been intrigued by food and
cultures. With my experience traveling around the world and trying numerous types of dishes in a
variety of locations, I have already obtained very well rounded background knowledge about the
topic. With recently turning vegetarian the past four years have made me open my eyes more to the
political and sociological side of food. Because of my previous completion of courses that cover
similar objectives, the extensive background knowledge I have acquired, and my passion for
knowledge about food’s place in society, I feel that this minor will be a successful pursuit.
Part 3: Coursework
On the following pages, list the courses you propose to include in your individualized minor.
Your minor must include:
 A minimum of 15 credit hours
 No more than two courses from any single department
 No more than 6 credit hours from units outside the College of Arts and Sciences
 No more than 3 hours of internship and 3 hours of independent readings credit

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 A minimum of 9 credit hours at the 300-400 level
 No more than two courses that you have already completed
 No more than one course that you are counting toward other degree objectives including
majors, other minors, or certificates
1. Classes you’ve taken or are currently taking
Department Number Title Hours Grade
COLL C-104 Critical Approaches to Arts and Science: People and Animals, 3 credits, A-
Rationale for inclusion in the minor: This course takes an in depth look at how humans associate
themselves with animals. A major aspect of this class is how humans use animals for food; this is
why I think the course connects to my minor’s goals. The reason for originally taking this course
is because it was required for the Anthropology of Food minor.
Department Number Title Hours Grade
INTL I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development: Food and Development, 3 credits, in
progress
Rationale for inclusion in the minor: I would like to look at the historical aspects of food
production and how time has changed food’s role in people’s lives. Furthermore this course
covers international aspects with food development, which is a feature that plays a large role in
the minor.
Department Number Title Hours
GEOG G-306 The Geography of Current Issues: Community Gardens and Orchards, 3 credits,
in progress
Rationale for inclusion in the minor: The topic of community gardens and orchards plays an
important role in how humans associate themselves with food and where it comes from. The
course also looks at how food and community gardens are linked with economy and sociology.
Department Number Title Hours
LAMP L-416 The Meat We Eat, 3 credits, in progress
Rationale for inclusion in the minor: This course looks at the specific food of meat and how
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values. I feel it should be included in the minor because it takes a historical and modern look at
meat ands its overall development.
Department Number Title Hours
FREN 3750 The Place of Food: Consuming French Culture, 3 credits, passed
Rationale for inclusion in the minor: The course dissects the way French people eat, drink and
produce their food by looking at the cultural aspects that are involved in their way of consuming.
With its cultural and geographical look on French food and diet I feel that it strongly supports
my objectives about understanding a certain culture through their food.
Alternate courses
List substitute courses in case any courses above are not offered, are offered at times that won’t
work with your schedule, or require substitution for any other reason. Substitution of courses not
included in the original application require approval of the IMP Director.
I will be graduating after the Fall Semester in December 2014
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