SPAN 302 Flavors of Hispanic Culture (3 SH)

This conversational course offers a close understanding of Hispanic culture through a variety of food that mirrors diversity, history, traditions, believes, national and cultural identity, collective memories and taboos. The course covers from ancestral food practices prior to the encounter with the European colonists to contemporary culinary expressions of Hispanic dishes existent in many homes, poetry, novels, movies and songs of the diverse and multifaceted Hispanic kitchen. Prerequisite: SPAN 220 or consent of instructor.

Core: CC

Offered in alternate years