SPN 340 - Food for Thought

Course Units: 1

Food is life. To satisfy the biological need to eat, people around the globe display diverse cultural practices to produce, distribute, prepare, and consume food. This course explores the cultural impact of food in Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present as it examines how food is present in political, economic, sociocultural, linguistic, and literary contexts. The course aims to increase students’ cultural knowledge related to food and food practices in Latin America and to develop effective interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication in Spanish through substantive readings from the field of Food Studies, Social Sciences, Sciences and Humanities. Class conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite(s): SPN 203 or permission of the instructor CC: LCC, HUM, WAC