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The course proposes a tour - not strictly chronological - through the Spanish American essay from the 19th century to the present. The main ideas, paradigms, sensitivities and tensions that articulate regional thought will be presented, such as those of civilization and barbarism, the local and the foreign, center and periphery, tradition and modernity, among others. In the same way, key thematic axes of contemporary essay production will be addressed, such as the monstrous, animality and gender as they provide notions that inform a discourse of the Hispanic American intellectual subject in relation to the local and global present. 

Sport Climbing I is categorized as an individual psychomotor sport, which provides the technical, tactical and regulatory foundations of the sport, allowing the student to apply the contents and be evaluated in a competitive reality. Through its practice, physical condition is optimized for good performance in its practice, aspiring to a better quality of life. Its values ​​and competencies give the student the opportunity to reflect on the actions developed, promoting improvement in their personal and professional training.

The purpose of this course is for students to know the foundations of three linguistic paradigms of current high relevance (Structuralism, Generativism and Functionalism) in the context of modern linguistics, become familiar with their specialized terms and understand their different conceptions of language and questions asked in relation to this.

The course aims to introduce students to the different areas of study of Human Geography, emphasizing the knowledge and assessment of the elements and factors that explain the activity of man as a modifying agent of the Earth's surface, in its economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions.

This course is a survey of the history of the Americas from the late 19th-early 21st centuries. While we will focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, we will also learn about U.S.-Latin American relations. Through weekly lectures and exploration of primary documents and bibliography, we will discuss four main themes: state formation; constructing national identity through popular culture; economics and commodities; and the intersection of race, class, and gender.

This course seeks to synthesize and analyze comparatively and critically the various representations and uses of the body in the history of artistic representations, with particular emphasis on the visual arts, through a series of viewing exercises and classroom presentations, as well as field trips to museums, galleries and other spaces for artistic dissemination. Through group presentations and written works of a critical nature, students will analyze images of corporeality inscribed in the Western tradition, which express a rich and complex fabric of historical circumstances, social discourses and conceptions of the body, ranging from anatomical and anthropological to considerations on modern and contemporary aesthetic categories. It is expected to critically reflect on this disciplinary intersection in presentations and texts of great methodological and conceptual rigor.

Field Work III is a practical course, where students will be faced with a scientific problem, which must be determined through systematic and rigorous information gathering in the field and the subsequent analysis of this information. In this course, students must be able to face specific problems, generate a proposal for collecting primary source information, execute what was planned and then process the information obtained by contrasting it with secondary background information, providing an answer to a scientific question.

In this theoretical and practical course, students will analyze the development of the human rights of women and sexual dissidence, focusing on the actors who have made said development possible and the mechanisms through which they have been disseminated. The above is analyzed through lectures, individual analysis of texts and group development of research, which contributes to the development of scientific and empirical knowledge about international political processes in the students.