National Autonomous University of Mexico

This course offers a study of consumer decision-making processes. Topics include: consumer behavior; external factors to consumer behavior; internal factors to consumer behavior; types of purchase and decision-making processes; consumer society.

This course offers an introduction to the techniques of locating critical points in infinite-dimensional spaces in order to understand the variational formulations of mechanics in physics, including the principles of minimum action that give rise to the Euler-Lagrange equations and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Topics include: calculation in spaces of functions; necessary conditions; change of variables-- Hamilton-Jacobi; sufficient conditions.

Through the lens of gender and sexuality, this course analyzes how knowledge, history, policies, and norms are produced, configured, mediated, and governed. It examines some of the basic concepts and theoretical perspectives of studies on women, gender, and sexuality. Additionally, this course discusses a set of thematic areas that hold an enduring, if shifting, place within the field as a whole and that are also key to the regulation and transgression of gender, sexuality, and intersecting axes of difference. 

This course provides a study of pre-Hispanic Mayan literature and culture as it interacts and changes with the beginning of colonization. Topics include: from izapa to post-classic; cosmogeny, structure of the univers, pantheon, and calendars; social structure-- nobility, commoners, and slaves; political organization-- lordships and states; economic organization-- tribute and trade. Authors and texts covered include: Fray Diego de Landa; Mercedes de la Garza; Chilam balam de Chumayel; Rabinal Achi; Popol Vuh. 

This course provides a study of pre-Hispanic Nahuatl literature and culture as it interacts and changes with the beginning of colonization. Topics include: characterization of Nahuatl literary genres, alphabetization of oral traditions, Spanish conquistador influence and basic comprehension of the Nahuatl language of Central Mexico. Texts covered include: Miguel León-Portilla, EL DESTINO DE LA PALABRA; Patrick K. Johansson, LA PALABRA, LA IMAGEN Y EL MANUSCRITO; Rafael Tena, MITOS E HISTORIAL DE LOS ANTIGUOS NAHUAS; Elizabeth Hill Boone, CICLOS DE TIEMPO Y SIGNIFICADO EN LOS LIBROS MEXICANOS DEL DESTINO.

This course examines the role of data abstraction to solve problems. It discusses data structures, their characteristics, and implementation in object-oriented programming language. Topics include: arrays; recursions; lists; batteries; tails; trees; binary trees; binary search trees; balanced search trees; functions and hash tables; heaps; sorting algorithms; algorithms in graphs. 

The course identifies the impact of U.S. interventionism on the political, economic, and social transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean. It discusses the political crisis, process of re-colonization, and the eco-social collapse affecting the region. The course analyzes political forces, corporations, national and regional actors, power blocks, integration mechanisms, and de facto powers and their role in the systemic and environmental crisis that exists in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

This course offers a study of fluid dynamics with an emphasis on acoustics. Topics include: fundamentals of fluid mechanics; linear acoustic equations; traveling waves; reflection and transmission of plane waves; resonators, cavities, and waveguides; radiation; dispersion and diffraction; absorption and attenuation; measurement of acoustic parameters.