Spanish

This course explores poets and poetry of Latin America with a focus on vanguard poets and lesser-known poets of the 20th century. Topics include: vanguard poets; poetry and militancy; poetry and neurodivergence; women as poetic and political speakers in contemporary Latin American poetry; poetry of dissent; poetry, race, migration, and trans-territoriality.

This course examines the parts of speech and meanings presented in literature and mass media. Weekly topics include: the factors and functions of semiotics, poetry and rhetoric; verbal versification; meaning, reference, context, situation, and theme; verbal and visual morphology; types of speech and strategy; narration and the effects of narration; manipulations in media, meaning, and speech; figures of speech.

This course offers a study of the main sociocultural processes that make up human life such as socialization and social control. It analyzes social inequalities-- class, gender, ethnicity-- and social change. Topics include: primary dimensions of social stratification, inequality, and social exclusion-- gender, ethnicity, social class; primary structures, institutions, and social practices-- family and kinship, education, religion, etc.; social change and globalization.

This course provides a study of artificial systems capable of generating, coding, storing and transmitting knowledge. Topics covered include perception and artificial vision; data and text mining; codification of knowledge and expert systems; usability; virtual and augmented reality; artificial learning.

This course examines the Spanish short story from the Middle Ages to through the 20th century, discussing the historical context of authors and works.