Mexico

Through the lens of gender and sexuality, this course analyzes how knowledge, history, policies, and norms are produced, configured, mediated, and governed. It examines some of the basic concepts and theoretical perspectives of studies on women, gender, and sexuality. Additionally, this course discusses a set of thematic areas that hold an enduring, if shifting, place within the field as a whole and that are also key to the regulation and transgression of gender, sexuality, and intersecting axes of difference. 

This course provides a study of pre-Hispanic Mayan literature and culture as it interacts and changes with the beginning of colonization. Topics include: from izapa to post-classic; cosmogeny, structure of the univers, pantheon, and calendars; social structure-- nobility, commoners, and slaves; political organization-- lordships and states; economic organization-- tribute and trade. Authors and texts covered include: Fray Diego de Landa; Mercedes de la Garza; Chilam balam de Chumayel; Rabinal Achi; Popol Vuh. 

This course provides a study of pre-Hispanic Nahuatl literature and culture as it interacts and changes with the beginning of colonization. Topics include: characterization of Nahuatl literary genres, alphabetization of oral traditions, Spanish conquistador influence and basic comprehension of the Nahuatl language of Central Mexico. Texts covered include: Miguel León-Portilla, EL DESTINO DE LA PALABRA; Patrick K. Johansson, LA PALABRA, LA IMAGEN Y EL MANUSCRITO; Rafael Tena, MITOS E HISTORIAL DE LOS ANTIGUOS NAHUAS; Elizabeth Hill Boone, CICLOS DE TIEMPO Y SIGNIFICADO EN LOS LIBROS MEXICANOS DEL DESTINO.

This course examines the role of data abstraction to solve problems. It discusses data structures, their characteristics, and implementation in object-oriented programming language. Topics include: arrays; recursions; lists; batteries; tails; trees; binary trees; binary search trees; balanced search trees; functions and hash tables; heaps; sorting algorithms; algorithms in graphs. 

The course identifies the impact of U.S. interventionism on the political, economic, and social transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean. It discusses the political crisis, process of re-colonization, and the eco-social collapse affecting the region. The course analyzes political forces, corporations, national and regional actors, power blocks, integration mechanisms, and de facto powers and their role in the systemic and environmental crisis that exists in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

This course offers a study of fluid dynamics with an emphasis on acoustics. Topics include: fundamentals of fluid mechanics; linear acoustic equations; traveling waves; reflection and transmission of plane waves; resonators, cavities, and waveguides; radiation; dispersion and diffraction; absorption and attenuation; measurement of acoustic parameters.

This class covers Mexican literature of the colonial period from the beginning of the 17th Century to the end of the 18th Century, providing a historical and critical overview of the literature that developed in New Spain during this period. Through the reading of representative texts (poetry, narratives, drama and essays), the course examines the principal characteristics of the literature of New Spain from Mannerism and the Baroque to neoclassicism. The course further identifies the most important characteristics of the diverse literary currents and genres of this period and the importance of the studied texts and authors in the history of Mexican literature. Topics and readings may vary by semester and course instructor.

This course explores the nature of law, the origin and history of lawmaking, and the relationship between law and the common good. It analyzes texts from important philosophers including Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and more. 

This course examines the conceptual foundations of criminal law science, in particular the emergence of criminal law and the features that distinguish it from the general field of law. It considers what makes up criminal law and technical issues related to the field, the definition of crime from a legal aspect, the elements that comprise what it is and the principle systems that relate to it. Other topics covered include elements of a crime that support personal criminal liability; punishability; doctrinal systems related to crime.