Spanish

This five-week advanced summer course is intended for students who have completed the intermediate series of Spanish language at the university level and stresses productive and receptive conversation and improvement of linguistic and communicative skills. The class aims to improve the development of comprehension and discourse production at a level near that of an educated native speaker. The course includes the practice of listening comprehension strategies in order to facilitate access to different types of discourse at varying levels of difficulty.

This course discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using digital audiovisual media in the processes of data collection, analysis, and presentation of conclusions in social anthropology. It analyze the tradition of social photography and its main contributions, the use of photography as a tool, and the main techniques used. The course also examines visual anthropology versus ethnographic cinema as well as the rules for construction of anthropological audiovisual. 

This course offers an introduction to the historical evolution of Spanish, varieties of Spanish, and the grammatical, lexical, and linguistic characteristics of the language.

This course analyzes and experiments with the theoretical-practical foundations of screen printing and its qualities as an element of expression.  It offers a study of experimentation in design in order to develop a series of design and visual communication projects under the parameters of this multiple reproduction system.

This course analyzes contemporary Mexican avant-garde literature, with an emphasis on the genre of poetry, considering literature as a product of the social and political conditions of the country. The course identifies formal and ideological characteristics of Mexican literary texts, recognizing the multiple poetics of the processes of rupture and tradition.