Spanish

This course studies the historical processes, trends, and key figures in Latin American education during the 20th and 21st centuries.

This course reflects upon the characteristics of linguistic, paralinguistic and non-verbal content of communication that works to exercise violence against others.  Through the identification of patterns, linguistic messages, and other methods of communication, the class analyzes a type of nonphysical moral violence equally as important in its overall study.  The course also covers forms of violence prevention. 

This course is designed for Spanish students who communicate with a certain level of autonomy in simple, especially in social contexts. The course aims for students to consolidate their oral and written communication skills at a social level and that, at the same time, they begin to develop comprehension skills and written production that allows them to function in academic and professional contexts.

This course provides a general and introductory overview of the history and culture of the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of the Central Mexican Highlands. The course is structured in two semesters, each with a distinct yet complementary focus. This first semester course is diachronic, explaining the historical development of the Nahua peoples, from their cultural origins in the Classic period to the events leading up to the Spanish conquest. The second semester, in contrast, examines various aspects of Nahuatl culture from a synchronic perspective.

This course revolves around artistic expression among indigenous communities. The class material involves analysis of ancient American art, but is more based in understanding and questioning the general understanding of art as a concept, and how it relates to indigenous expression as well as hierarchies of sensibility. Ideas such as esthetics, intention, and technique are discussed in order to open students' minds to understanding the root of certain divisive labels, such as artisanal or primitive art.

This course discusses the theoretical and methodological foundations of visual sociology, aiming to define, based on theoretical, epistemological, and methodological research, the status of visual sociology within sociology in general. The course introduces the production of visual and audiovisual research documents by integrating the technique and language of photography and videography into a sociological research project. 

This course introduce students from the major Modern Languages and Literature (English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese) to fundamental concepts, strategies, and procedures of translation and translation studies, to initiate a process of reflection and practice.

This course aims to develop the efficient and creative use of the body and voice, through a process of disinhibition, imagination, improvisation and dramatization, allowing the student to improve their body awareness and access through artistic language diverse possibilities of creative expression, which give rise to a common language and which become a sample of collective expression, addressing the topics of interest to the participants.

This course is for students at advanced levels C1+ (with at least two semesters completed in C1) and C2. It focuses on improving linguistic tools for oral expression. The course promotes, consolidates, and perfects oral practice in Spanish based on specific cases and situations. To this end, a series of activities are carried out to develop this communicative competence. It enhances fluency, grammatical and lexical correctness, semantic precision, and pronunciation, all while taking into account the needs and expectations of the students. The basics of discourse analysis are used and the uses and strategies of debate are promoted. Each oral expression process is adapted to the context of speech (registers and context).