National Autonomous University of Mexico

This course offers an introduction to the historical and cultural processes of the Caribbean from the Lithic Age to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Topics include: introduction to Insular Caribbean Studies; the Antillean insular environment and it's population; periodization of the pre-Hispanic Insular Caribbean; daily life and Antillean material culture; Antillean mythology and worldview; first contact with Europeans.

This course discusses some of the most representative and foundational texts of the narrative genre from the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, as well as several lesser-known authors who were marginalized within the canon during the boom in Latin American literature. Topics include: the Latin American short narrative of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; an overview of the Latin American short novel-- from the late 1920s to the 1950s; the tensions of the canon and the boom (1950s and 1960s). 

This course examines the interaction of the environment with national and international development and identifies the elements and factors that intervene in political decisions and the creation of legal instruments for ecological conservation. The course provides the necessary knowledge to understand the complexity of environmental issues at the national and international levels, highlighting the difficulties in achieving cooperation among states to protect the global environment, and the reasons behind the positions of developing and developed countries in international forums. Furthermore, the course examines the various actors involved in the development of environmental policies and the main issues on the national and international environmental agenda, such as water scarcity; the increasing use of renewable energy; biodiversity; financing for environmental protection; environmental governance; and global climate change, among others.

This course provides a study of the poetry, short stories, and novels of Mexican literature from the 1950s onwards. It examines various literary movements, trends, and historical events during and after the Mexican Revolution. It covers the works of authors such as José Revueltas, Agustín Yáñez, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, Carlos Fuentes, Juan José Arreola, Josefina Vicens, Inés Arredondo, Salvador Elizondo, Juan Vicente Mello, Juan García Ponce, José Emilio Pacheco, and Luis Zapata.

This course offers a study of the trajectory of the hero and this character's evolution in literature. The course is taught in three units: theory of modernity; theory of history and the novel; archetypes of the modern hero.