Mexico

This course reviews the fundamental theories associated with the spaciality of rural areas.  The class focuses on the pressing issues faced by people within rural areas, especially farmers within Mexico and Latin America.  It also covers a detailed explanation of how agricultural markets function in terms of productivity and values.  Last, the course evaluates the impacts of industrialization and technological advancements of agricultural economies.

This course reviews and analyzes the main historical processes that shaped the United States from the Puritan Reformation that preceded the establishment of the 13 English colonies on the Atlantic coast until the Civil War (1861-1865).

The class first covers the historical-social process of capitalism through a geographic perspective by explaining the different theories of political economy and its critics, mainly Marx.  The course begins with the physiocrats, then to the mercantiles, and classical political economic theories.  The course covers feudal societies, class antagonisms, creation of port cities, and centralization of markets and power within cities.  It also addresses the hierarchical dynamics of capitalism on a global scale and changes in use value and exchange value as a result of higher quality of life.  

This course assesses private International law; its various theories, its sources, its methods, and techniques. The course addresses the problems of applying different provisions to the same legal relationship between people of different nationalities;  the solutions provided by immediately applicable rules and regulations; materials; the traditional conflict system, model laws, and uniform law. By the end of the course, students are expected to identify factual situations and adopt a decision based on law, acting in a loyal, diligent and transparent manner in the defense of the interests of the people they represent.

This course examines classical and current debates in the discipline, through both theoretical and empirical scholarship. The class begins with a chronicle of the valorization of work over time and the development of capitalism, before covering the changes in the workforce with the onset of neoliberalism worldwide. Other topics covered include gender discrimination, unions, and relations between workers and employers, with a specific focus on Mexico.

This course provides a critical approach to the contemporary debate between three sub- disciplines dedicated to the study of the intellectual production of Latin America: the history of ideas, intellectual history, and decolonial studies. This course identifies, analyzes, and discusses the origins, theoretical-methodological foundations, discrepancies, and challenges of these three currents with a view to glimpsing possible routes for their own research projects.

This course studies the evolution of the population composition in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent decades, reflecting on the links between said demographic dynamics and some of the main economic, political, cultural and social transformations known in the region. This course takes a theoretical and methodological approach, considering the dependence between the size, structure and distribution of a population in interaction with socio-spatial transformations. It discusses demographic transition, aging, young people, the countryside-city relationship, urbanization, employment, territorial mobility, etc.

This course identifies the difference between soil science and soil geography, and covers soil management conservation techniques. The course also allows students to participate in environmental regeneration, ordering, planning and development of basis, valleys, alluvial plans, and deltas. 

This course seeks a methodology for geographical description and research on the state scale of the Mexican territory and, particularly, for the study of the classic fields of physical analysis of its geographical space. The course seeks to answer the questions: How does one analyze the territorial configuration of the Mexican State from the physical elements of the geographical space? What are the particularities of the physical elements of this territory? What are the problems that have currently arisen around its use and exploitation? What historical processes have influenced this and what disputes are expressed in this territorial configuration? And what are the main sources of consultation to study it?

The course begins with a reflection on the elements traditionally considered as starting points for the study of the geography of modern territorial States, and where the processes, subjects and factors that determine it and the factors from different scales are also identified. By the end of this section, participants will then have a theoretical-methodological framework that will allow them to focus on the more specific analysis of the physical elements of the geographical space of Mexico, valuing them and identifying the particularity that each of these geographical elements has in the historical configuration of the country. The second part of the course then analzes eight central elements in the production of the Mexican territorial State namely: orography, minerals, climate, soil, vegetation, continental water, hydrocarbons and maritime space. and insular; analyzing its geographical distribution, historical production and current problems.

This class covers how to conduct investigative journalism from a methodological standpoint. It focuses on distinguishing what constitutes investigative journalism in differentiation from other various forms of journalistic reporting. The course analyzes current news articles and media and discusses the ethical values and practices of journalistic work. This class involves project-based work in which the student will design and conduct their proper investigative project.