National Autonomous University of Mexico

This course provides a study of the elements that pertain to the most significant criminal offences, as well as newly emerging crimes, through the analysis of relevant legal aspects. Emphasis is placed on the most important legally protected rights and the varying classes of offences. Topics covered include: crimes against life, integrity of body, and against the family; crimes against personal liberty and normal psychosexual development; patrimonial crimes; crimes against health and well-being; corruption of minors; crimes committed by public servants; crimes against the administration of justice; crimes against public faith; concealment and operations with resources of illicit origin; crimes against biodiversity and the environment.

The course offers an introduction to syntax, the fundamental theories of syntactic analysis, and the methodologies to apply theories. Students utilize these methodologies in authentic case studies.

This course offers a study of alternative mechanisms for dispute resolution. Topics include: conflict and management; alternative methods for conflict resolution; negotiation; mediation; arbitration; alternative methods of dispute resolution in free trade agreements.

This course discusses the strategies and dynamics of incorporation of underlying educational strategies towards indigenous peoples within Mexico from the Aztecs to the present through an anthropological and sociological lens. Topics include: the role of education within indigenous communities; the cultural impact of educational campaigns by the Mexican State; the current status of intercultural and bilingual education. 

This course provides a study of the role of emotions within modern and contemporary Latin American narrative and novels. Topics include: characterization of the emotions of love, hate, fear, hope, happiness, sadness, and disgust; the role emotions play in novels and how it affects the body; the social, ideological, and esthetic dimensions of emotions. Texts include: Juan Rodolfo Wilcok, LOS AMANTES; Nona Fernández, CHILEAN ELECTRIC; Ana Peluffo, EL CLAVE EMOCIONAL. CULTURA Y AFECTO EN AMÉRICA LATINA; Mariana Enriquez, EL CHICO SUCIO.

This course critically examines the production of masculinities in the contemporary world, with a historical perspective situated in the West and Latin America; as well as from the individual and collective experiences of each student.

This course explores the characteristics, phases of development, trends, works, and authors of 20th century Latin American literature. Topics include: the pro-indigenous novel; reality transfigured; the current panorama of Latin American literature; modernity and post-modernity.

This course covers the new concept of multiculturalism as it relates to nation, identity, modernism, post-modernism, and political correctness. Emphasis is placed on multiculturalism as it pertains to Mexico and Latin America. The course examines issues of cultural diversity, the construction of cultural plurality, national and international legal frameworks regarding indigenous matters, and the current state of social transformations, conflicts and resolutions.

This course offers a study of concepts, definitions, and applications of nonlinear dynamics. Topics include: dimensional systems and bifurcations; systems in two-dimensions-- analysis in phase space, limited cycles, and their bifurcations; Lorenz equations and chaos; 1-D maps and route to chaos by period doubling, renormalization; fractals and strange attractors.

This course critically examines the topic of gender violence including historical dimensions, how and why it happens, and the diversity of social and institutional responses that have sought and seek to eradicate it.