National Autonomous University of Mexico

This course studies the dynamic and complex condition of Latin American societies and culture through an examination of various literary works. It explores then different characteristics, developmental phases, and trends of Iberoamerican works and authors. Topics include: discovery, encounter, or invention: Europe's vision of America; conquest, colonization, and cultural mestizaje; Baroque art: imitation, resistance, and rupture in 17th century colonial thought; Enlightenment in the colonies: the debate between faith and reason; colonial independence.

This course provides a historical-conceptual understanding of campesino movements in Latin America and the contexts of the geographies in which they arise. The course is guided by three key units including land, territory, and life, each of which provides a sophisticated understanding through reading theory, lecture, group work,
presentations, as well as through hands-on learning in the field with campesinos in Mexico City. 

This course prepares students to write academic texts (reading reports, commentaries, text analyses, and essays) in Spanish that are coherent, cohesive, and grammatically correct, allowing them to express their ideas and knowledge in subsequent courses in the degree.

This course familiarizes students with 20th-century English-language literature through analyzing texts belonging to diverse literary genres: poetry, drama, and prose. It covers works by Joseph Conrad; Henry James; W.B. Yeats; James Joyce; T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett; W.H. Auden; Seamus Heaney, and Moya Cannon.

This course questions the most generalized binary oppositions (State versus indigenous people, government versus community, etc.) that are loaded with moral values ​​(“bad” State versus “good” people) through readings and reflections that provide a complex understanding of the relationships between law, right, State, indigeneity and anthropology. The class becomes familiar with the history and institutionalisation of the rights of indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants by analyzing case studies that show the possibilities and limitations of new legislation at national and international level.  The course also examines the difference between multiculturalism and interculturality through different intercultural projects. 

This literature course studies the work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, exploring lesser-known aspects of her work. Each week of the class, selected articles or book chapters are discussed, providing critical perspectives on Sor Juana’s writings, paired with direct readings of her texts, including sonnets, romances, letters, and other poems. This course extends beyond the canonical image of Sor Juana, encouraging a deeper and more nuanced understanding of her literary legacy; it leads to the discovery that Sor Juana's literary quality permeates all her work, regardless of whether they are the object of praise or indifference. 

This course critically examines aesthetics from a historical perspective, focusing on the theory of both Plato and Aristotle. The course explores topics of aesthetics and form; aesthetics as a historical discipline, and aesthetics as a normative discipline. It then compares and contrasts Platonic aesthetics to Aristotelian poetics.

This course translates previous knowledge of syntactic analysis of textual and oral pragmatic applications of discourse in the Spanish language. The class analyzes how grammatical structures used in common speech can receive a distinct communicative function outside of its syntactic or semantic aspect.