Mexico

This five-week advanced summer course is intended for students who have completed the intermediate series of Spanish language at the university level and stresses productive and receptive conversation and improvement of linguistic and communicative skills. The class aims to improve the development of comprehension and discourse production at a level near that of an educated native speaker. The course includes the practice of listening comprehension strategies in order to facilitate access to different types of discourse at varying levels of difficulty.

This course analyzes and experiments with the theoretical-practical foundations of screen printing and its qualities as an element of expression.  It offers a study of experimentation in design in order to develop a series of design and visual communication projects under the parameters of this multiple reproduction system.

This course analyzes contemporary Mexican avant-garde literature, with an emphasis on the genre of poetry, considering literature as a product of the social and political conditions of the country. The course identifies formal and ideological characteristics of Mexican literary texts, recognizing the multiple poetics of the processes of rupture and tradition.

This course explores literary criticism and theory in Latin America and the theoretical foundations and critical and methodological contributions proposed for the study of Latin American literature. Topics include: Latin American literature in the 19th century and the problem of the formation of literature-- originality, independence, and nation; the professionalization of critical practice-- between tradition and modernity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and originality and dependence; theory and criticism of the testimony genre-- the problem of genres in literary theory, forms and types of testimony, subject and voices in testimony, and fiction in testimony.