Spanish

This course evaluates the theoretical proposals that emerged from Saussure's structural linguistics and influence of Trubetzkoy's phonology, familiarizing one with the paradigm shift in the social and human sciences introduced by French Structuralism. The course also explores the semiotics of culture and its implications for literary studies, providing opportunities to reflect on the reading process, literary criticism and reception. Last, the course recognizes the impact of race, class, and gender on the reading experience. 

This course focuses on the idea of the public image in general, not exclusively to political matters. The course involves participants to analyze the public image of any brand, persona, celebrity, politician, etc. Throughout the course, participants research, construct, reconstruct, or analyze their public image and present their findings to the class. This course emphasizes the importance of public image and how it influences the way in which the world perceives them.

This course examines ideas, concepts, traditions, and authors that shaped critical thinking in Latin America during the twentieth century, in close relation to the socio-political and economic processes of the region.

This course explores the history of medieval Europe from the 5th to 15th centuries. Topics include: the Middle Ages in European history; from disintegration of the ancient world to Germanic invasions; barbarian Europe; the Byzantine Empire and origins of Islamic civilization; the Carolingian Empire; second invasions and the Holy Roman Empire; feudal society and expansions from the 11th to 13th centuries; universalist aspirations-- papacy and empire; from feudal monarchies to sovereign states; from the crisis of medieval society to the origins of the modern world.

This course offers an introduction to the problems, concepts, and methods of logic. Topics include: the object of logic; truth and demonstration; basic concepts of set theory; syntax; semantics; interpretation; truth; formalization; logical truth; equivalence; consequence.

Topics in this course include: conceptual and historical introduction to the evaluation of programs and organizations; purposes and main sources of evaluation; basics of evaluation-- phases, methodology, advantages/limitations, and uses; stakeholders, areas, and levels of evaluation; epistemology and major evaluation approaches; types of evaluation according to different criteria. 

This course focuses on basic teaching skills to design, implement, and evaluate educational projects in art education. Topics include: safety, hygiene, and good practices; mechanisms for learning, understanding, and transmission of artistic and cultural values and criteria; teaching of visual arts in different education settings; curricular design; application of different teaching methods; curriculum of artistic education.

This course offers a study of the origins of theater in Greece as well as its literary aspects-- tragedy, comedy, and satirical drama-- from the archaic and classical periods. It explores the cultural, social, and religious functions of theater in Greece as well as the role of classical literature in the birth and configuration of European vernacular literature.

This course examines popular musical culture with an emphasis on musicological, sociological, and anthropological aspects. Other topics include: comparative folklore; how and why popular music should be studied; the songbooks and folklore missions in Spain; methods and procedures in ethnomusicological research; anthropology of music-- music in culture; reformulation of folklore; processes of transit and cultural contact. Pre-requisites: Musicology students with prior musical knowledge

This course analyzes the cultural construction of reality through different symbolic manifestations. It discusses contributions of symbolic anthropology to the understanding of cultural manifestations and processes, as well as the relationship between their material and symbolic dimensions. This course reflects on symbols, rituals, representation, expressiveness, worldview, mythology, magic, and the imaginary to understand the cultural and social processes of human groups.