If You Can't Imagine Life Without Tacos, This College Has A Course For You
For a lot of university students, the college experience is simply procrastinating themselves into an all-nighter, getting inebriated and eating disgustingly junk foods in both instances. The University of Kentucky has tapped into this ongoing trend and is now offering a course to study one of the main proprietors of junky indulgences: tacos.
Yes, you can study tacos and get college credit at the University of Kentucky. You read that right.
The course comes as a creation from assistant professor for the school’s writing, rhetoric and digital studies department, Steven Alvarez.
Alvarez has an involvement with the Southern Foodways Alliance and figured that creating a course such as Taco Studies was a great way to open up students' minds about the culture of the southern United States. He explained to Munchies:
"It was more about the social connections that people were making with food…This class allows our students to explore the issues of immigration, inequality, workers, intercultural communication, and literacy through the prism of food."
No word on this yet, but it's safe to assume the class will meet on Tuesdays because well, you know: Taco Tuesdays are a thing. You can bet there will be sections on various meat choices, types of hot sauces and maybe even an ongoing debate between hard or soft shell tacos. Those who are on the fence about it? They can write an argument for double decker to be the standard.
Anyway, those are all just speculative lesson-plan ideas. If you want to really learn the ins and outs of tacos, you'll need to enroll in the U.K. course for yourself.
This is just a class, and should be seen as fun and innovative curriculum. Those over in Europe, as you may recall, have taken food studies to a bit more of an extreme, with Manchester Metropolitan University offering a degree in Pizza Hut.
Yeah, studying tacos for one course doesn't quite limit your career aspirations in the same way.