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THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science
UCEAP Course Number
107
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY
UCEAP Transcript Title
THEORY DEMOCRACY
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

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. 

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
2932
Host Institution Course Title
THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLITICAS Y SOCIALES
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
CIENCIA POLITICA

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PHILOSOPHY IN MEXICO AND LATIN AMERICA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Philosophy Latin American Studies
UCEAP Course Number
108
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
PHILOSOPHY IN MEXICO AND LATIN AMERICA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
UCEAP Transcript Title
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.70
Course Description

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.  

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
0600
Host Institution Course Title
PHILOSOPHY IN MEXICO AND LATIN AMERICA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
FILOSOFIA

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KANT AND GERMAN IDEALISM
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Philosophy
UCEAP Course Number
105
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
KANT AND GERMAN IDEALISM
UCEAP Transcript Title
KANT&GERMAN IDEALSM
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.70
Course Description

To understand the general orientation of the kind of thought known as German idealism, this course contextualizes Kant and the post-Kantian philosophers in Leibniz's project to: (1) Recover the Platonic tradition as an antidote to the nominalist theism of Locke and Berkeley; (2) Take as a formula the Kantian claim that his philosophy, transcendental philosophy, is idealist regarding the form of experience, but not its matter.  The full development of the meaning involved in this escape from (Berkeley's) material idealism leads the course gradually from the old Kant's Critique of the Faculty of Judgment to the Nietzsche's declared death of criticism, allowing one to distinguish the unity of this important intellectual development.

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
3613
Host Institution Course Title
KANT AND GERMAN IDEALISM
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
FILOSOFIA

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GOLDEN AGE SPANISH LITERATURE
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Spanish Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
136
UCEAP Course Suffix
B
UCEAP Official Title
GOLDEN AGE SPANISH LITERATURE
UCEAP Transcript Title
GOLDEN AGE SPAN LIT
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course provides a study of Spanish Golden Age literature, examining the main characteristics of different literary works, as well as historical and cultural context of seventeenth century Spain. It covers cultural and linguistic issues of the Baroque period, as well as literary theory and textual commentary of the time; lyric poetry; the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque; conceptismo and culteranismo; the picaresque novel; theater in the seventeenth century; didactic literature; Cervantes. Topics and readings may vary by semester and course instructor.
Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
3407
Host Institution Course Title
GOLDEN AGE SPANISH LITERATURE
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
LENGUA Y LITERATURA HISPANICAS

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EPISTEMOLOGY
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Philosophy
UCEAP Course Number
110
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
EPISTEMOLOGY
UCEAP Transcript Title
EPISTEMOLOGY
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.70
Course Description

The objective of epistemology is to discuss or determine the nature, limits, scope, presuppositions, and bases of human knowledge.  Its importance is extreme because it is the branch of philosophy that places very severe limits on free speculation.  For example, metaphysics and ontology can argue coherently and convincingly about the existence of anything; epistemology refers to the way in which it aims to know and justify what it proposes.  Epistemology is what determines what is mere metaphysical speculation; what seems to be able to be confirmed as part of reality; how well the claims to know something are founded; how many forms of knowledge there are; what their degrees of doubt or certainty as well as their scope, limits, sources, justifications, etc.  This course aims to give students the necessary foundations to be able to introduce some of the disturbing questions immersed in the attempt to define what human knowledge is and how it is obtained and justified.  The course, therefore, aims that students are able to understand, reflect on, and discuss the problems they face. 

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
3217
Host Institution Course Title
EPISTEMOLOGY
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
FILOSOFIA

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LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science Latin American Studies
UCEAP Course Number
186
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT
UCEAP Transcript Title
LAT AM THOUGHT
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course provides an interdisciplinary study of the development of Latin American socio-political thinking of the 19th and 20th centuries. The course discusses the multi-faceted perspectives and ideologies that developed regarding Latin America in its particulars and its totality. Topics include indigenist theories, multi-ethnic states, constitutional regimes, dictatorships for order, nation-state, new trade relations with empires, proposals for revolutionary change, characterizations of military dictatorships and Latin American democracies. It also provides an analysis of integration, pluralities and new proposals for development in Latin America.
Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
2415
Host Institution Course Title
LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLITICAS Y SOCIALES
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
CIENCIA POLITICA

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HISTORY OF ANCIENT MEXICO: MESOAMERICA II
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
UCEAP Course Number
103
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
HISTORY OF ANCIENT MEXICO: MESOAMERICA II
UCEAP Transcript Title
MESOAMERICA II
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.70
Course Description

This course provides a general overview of indigenous groups during the Postclassic period, prior to the first Hispanic expeditions in the territory.  The course offers a series of basic methodological and monographic tools for the study of the Indigenous past, which is considered the foundation of Mexican History. The course aims to provide a general overview of the Epiclassical period, and the Postclassic in Mesoamerica; provide the tools and basic concepts for the study of ancient México, and to bring one closer closer to the documentary corpus written during the New Spain period, through which Mesoamerican cultures can be studied.

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
0289
Host Institution Course Title
HISTORY OF ANCIENT MEXICO: MESOAMERICA II
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
HISTORIA

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PHILOSOPHY IN MEXICO
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Philosophy
UCEAP Course Number
102
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
PHILOSOPHY IN MEXICO
UCEAP Transcript Title
MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.70
Course Description

This course explores the main Mexican philosophical currents, as well as the problems they have attempted to solve, through the study and exposition of the controversies in which prominent Mexican philosophers have expressed their ideas, from the ancient indigenous peoples to the present day (focusing on humanistic, political, and scientific thought).  

The course covers the following topics: Nahuatl philosophy; Mayan philosophy; the invention of America and the conquest; the Valladolid controversy; controversy about Potestas or Dominus and political philosophy; controversy about identity and modernity; controversy about natualista; controversies of the 21st century (independent discourse); controversies regarding the best way to teach (positivism, liberalism and anarchism; Philosophy of Mexico to Mexican Philosophy (the "feeling of inferiority" and its history); Zea Villoro controversy (about the best way to do philosophy), and Canadian multiculturalism versus Mexican intercultural philosophy.
 

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
3418
Host Institution Course Title
PHILOSOPHY IN MEXICO
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
FILOSOFIA

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LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE 1
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Spanish Latin American Studies
UCEAP Course Number
122
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE 1
UCEAP Transcript Title
LATIN AMER LIT 1
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description

This course aims to read, understand and interpret poetry and prose from the so-called "colonial" period in regions where a way of life and expression was imposed on native societies and communities by viceroyalties. In addition, the very notions of "conquest" and "colonization" are discussed from the perspective of Latin American studies, focusing on the political, social and cultural processes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and their impact on the communities and peoples that experienced colonial violence and subordination. 

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
3255
Host Institution Course Title
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE 1
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
ESTUDIOS LATINOAMERICANOS

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LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
106
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY
UCEAP Transcript Title
LIT&CRITICAL THEORY
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.70
Course Description

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. 

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
3405
Host Institution Course Title
LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY
Host Institution Campus
NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
LENGUA Y LITERATURA HISPANICAS
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