Mexico

This course discusses the strategies and dynamics of incorporation of underlying educational strategies towards indigenous peoples within Mexico from the Aztecs to the present through an anthropological and sociological lens. Topics include: the role of education within indigenous communities; the cultural impact of educational campaigns by the Mexican State; the current status of intercultural and bilingual education. 

This course provides a study of the role of emotions within modern and contemporary Latin American narrative and novels. Topics include: characterization of the emotions of love, hate, fear, hope, happiness, sadness, and disgust; the role emotions play in novels and how it affects the body; the social, ideological, and esthetic dimensions of emotions. Texts include: Juan Rodolfo Wilcok, LOS AMANTES; Nona Fernández, CHILEAN ELECTRIC; Ana Peluffo, EL CLAVE EMOCIONAL. CULTURA Y AFECTO EN AMÉRICA LATINA; Mariana Enriquez, EL CHICO SUCIO.

This course critically examines the production of masculinities in the contemporary world, with a historical perspective situated in the West and Latin America; as well as from the individual and collective experiences of each student.

This course explores the characteristics, phases of development, trends, works, and authors of 20th century Latin American literature. Topics include: the pro-indigenous novel; reality transfigured; the current panorama of Latin American literature; modernity and post-modernity.

This course covers the new concept of multiculturalism as it relates to nation, identity, modernism, post-modernism, and political correctness. Emphasis is placed on multiculturalism as it pertains to Mexico and Latin America. The course examines issues of cultural diversity, the construction of cultural plurality, national and international legal frameworks regarding indigenous matters, and the current state of social transformations, conflicts and resolutions.

This course offers a study of concepts, definitions, and applications of nonlinear dynamics. Topics include: dimensional systems and bifurcations; systems in two-dimensions-- analysis in phase space, limited cycles, and their bifurcations; Lorenz equations and chaos; 1-D maps and route to chaos by period doubling, renormalization; fractals and strange attractors.

This course critically examines the topic of gender violence including historical dimensions, how and why it happens, and the diversity of social and institutional responses that have sought and seek to eradicate it. 

This course offers a study of consumer decision-making processes. Topics include: consumer behavior; external factors to consumer behavior; internal factors to consumer behavior; types of purchase and decision-making processes; consumer society.

This course offers an introduction to the techniques of locating critical points in infinite-dimensional spaces in order to understand the variational formulations of mechanics in physics, including the principles of minimum action that give rise to the Euler-Lagrange equations and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Topics include: calculation in spaces of functions; necessary conditions; change of variables-- Hamilton-Jacobi; sufficient conditions.