Like every college course, this class has had it’s ups and downs. There were some things I enjoyed, and some things that were a bit more challenging. Obviously, my favorite part of this class was watching the films. There were a few that I knew, like The Hundred Foot Journey , some that were new to me but I thoroughly enjoyed, like Mostly Martha, and Big Night, and some that missed the mark for me, like Woman On Top and Like Water For Chocolate. Through watching these different films, I learned a lot about different film themes that I had never heard of before, like the prevalence of magical realism in Mexican/Latin-American film, and the concept of “the falcon” of a film, which makes it stand out from other films. On top of all of that, I had never even considered “Food Film” as a film subgenre before. In the films we watched, the food itself became its own character of the story. The film viewing combined with the assigned readings allowed me to improve my ability to ana...