National Autonomous University of Mexico

This course is a beginner level course taught in a bilingual environment of Spanish and Portuguese. The course covers basic vocabulary and grammar with the goal of building the capacity to talk about the learner´s daily activities and physical and psychological characteristics, while asking simple questions and conducting small conversations. The course also presents the general geography and cultural-historical information of Portuguese-speaking countries (Brasil, Portugal, Angola, etc.).

This course focuses on ancient Mexican art throughout Mesoamerica and its diverse regions.  In ancient Mexico, works of art played a particularly important role in the diverse rituals associated with the earth, the underworld, and death, but also with fertility and political power. By associating works of art with their archaeological context and original ritual function, the course introduces students to the wealth of information that the study of artistic works offers.
 

This course recognizes and valorizes the contributions of animals throughout history in the sum of responding to the epistemological question.  Can animals be individuals who enact their own intention and will who, through its own actions, create history with themselves as the protagonists? This course dives into socio-philosophical explorations of the parallel evolution of animal labor along with neoliberalism and capitalism while later linking its ties into the Latin American context.

This course explores different perspectives of contemporary democracy. The original investigations and categories of political science, those developed by Greek civilization, are proposed as a category of analysis. The course then reviews the construction of democracy; its corruption, and its demagogic implementation in contemporary regime. 

Indigenous peoples are present in the economic participation and cultural wealth of their nations.  A variety of languages can still be heard and seen, and uprisings, such as those of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, can be observed.  This second semester course analyzes the cultural knowledge and original philosophies of each of the most important groups in Mexico: Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, Purépecha, and Quechua and Aymara of Peru and Bolivia, including a few other Mexican and Latin American philosophers.