National Autonomous University of Mexico

This course examines the importance of identity and cultural characteristics that are involved in the function of society. It discusses tools to effectively intervene in social issues in different sectors of society at the individual, group, and community level and in rural and urban areas. Topics include: definition of culture; ideology and national identity; conceptualization of infiltration and cultural change.

This course analyzes the identity projects that have sought to define "being Mexican." It begins with the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century and their political and cultural attempt to homogenize the diverse cultural identities of the territory under the category of "Indian." The course examines the history of ideas as well as the epistemic, ontological and phenomenal frameworks that have accompanied this process of identity construction and its consequences throughout the history of Mexico. 

This course offers a study of Mayan civilization from a multidisciplinary perspective, exploring the geographic and linguistic distribution, and the overlaps between archaeology; social anthropology; and religious theory.

This class offers an introduction to the fundamental concepts of distributed systems. Topics include: synchronization; distributed algorithms; distributed architecture; distributed file systems; end-to-end systems (P2P); distributed transactions.