Student Info
Name: Kaela Harmon
Term: Fall 2018
Credits: 16
Title: Intoxicating Truth
Contact Info
Contract mode:
Sponsor name: Sarah Williams
Internship Info (if applicable):
Internship hours/wk: 20 hours per week
Internship credits: 8 credits
Academic credits: 8 credits
Field Supervisor
Field supervisor: Kendal Calquhoun
Title: Manager
Organization: Sizizis
Subcontractor
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Program Description
Narrative:
The sixteen credit contract Intoxicating Truth is a combination of academic study, creative design and an internship. The student will have a internship with the downtown Olympia bar Sizizis. The student will spend three days a week at the bar learning day-to-day business life and create quality cocktails and drinks for customers. To accompany the internship the student will research what constitutes a quality drink and why consumers value and pay for “craft, artisan, quality” beverages. The student will read and create a annotated bibliography for the following books: Pairing Wine With Food by Linda Johnson-Bell, Make Mead Like a Viking: Traditional Techniques for Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermentation, Honey -Based Wine and Beers by Jereme Zimmerman, A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage, The Alcohol Textbook: A Reference for the Beverage, Fuel and Industrial Alcohol Industries by K.A. Jacques, Alcoholic Fermentation by Arthur Harden, Dinner with Darwin by Jonathan Silvertown, The encyclopedia of substance abuse by Gary Fisher, Champagne: How the World’s Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times by Donald Kladstrup and Petie Kladstrup, Uncorked: The Science of Champagne by Gérard Liger-Belair, The American Cider Book: The Story of America’s Natural Beverage by Vrest Orton, Stories From a Tearoom Window by Chikamatsu Shigenori, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages by Patrick Edward McGovern. The student will also hand-build drinking and fermentation containers, using traditional and experimental designs.
| Learning objective | Activity | Deliverable |
| The student will create drinking containers.
The student will spend eight hours a week making clay drinking containers. |
Hand build drinking containers using clay. | The student will post their progress and final results in their SOS: Food and Agriculture ePortfolio along with the students contacts Instagram. |
| The student will research the history and culture of fermented drinks to answer the questions:
How does alcohol affect cultures? What is alcohols importance to human culture? The student will spend ten hours a week researching, reading and responding to the work with a essay or creative response. |
The student will read books and create a annotated bibliography and a creative response. | The student will post their annotated bibliography and creative response to their SOS: Food and Agriculture ePortfolio. |
| Gain a wider knowledge about pairing food with alcoholic drinks.
The student will create a meal at least bi-weekly, and will write meal plans weekly. The student will spend 4 hours a week reading, creating a meal and meal planning. |
The student will read books and create a annotated bibliography.
The student will create balanced meals paired with a drink. |
The student will post their progress and final results in their SOS: Food and Agriculture ePortfolio.
The student will add photographs of the meals they created to the contracts Instagram account. |
| The student will have a internship at the bar SIZIZIS. The field supervisor is Kendall Calquhoun. The student will work twenty hours a week. | Craft cocktails, Pair food with beverages, Help with opening and closing the bar, Create menus, Update the businesses online presence and other tasks that arise. |
The student will add photographs and a descriptions to the students Instagram account for the contract. |
Evaluation of Work
- Narrative evaluations from field supervisor and/or subcontractor
- Narrative mid-quarter and final self-evaluations
- WordPress ePortfolio