Spanish

The Urban Planning Methods and Practices course contributes to the development of the professional profile of architects, empowering students with the various methods and tools of urban planning focused on environmental interpretation, urban design, and planning, with a critical and proactive approach.

This course focuses on ancient Mexican art throughout Mesoamerica and its diverse regions.  In ancient Mexico, works of art played a particularly important role in the diverse rituals associated with the earth, the underworld, and death, but also with fertility and political power. By associating works of art with their archaeological context and original ritual function, the course introduces students to the wealth of information that the study of artistic works offers.
 

This course recognizes and valorizes the contributions of animals throughout history in the sum of responding to the epistemological question.  Can animals be individuals who enact their own intention and will who, through its own actions, create history with themselves as the protagonists? This course dives into socio-philosophical explorations of the parallel evolution of animal labor along with neoliberalism and capitalism while later linking its ties into the Latin American context.

This course provide an overview of the key aspects and trends of contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature, placing particular attention on areas of influence and contact between the two traditions. Topics covered include: the literary and cultural dialogue between Spain and Latin America; Spanish and Latin American Modernism vs. the Generation of '98; the poetic vanguards on both sides of the Atlantic; realism, magic and fantasy; Spanish postwar literature; women in the Hispanic world; transcendence, fragmentation, and transatlantic dialogue in the 20th century; literary trends in postmodern Spain and Latin America.

This course explores the history and evolution of the Spanish language. It discusses dialect and speech, where Spanish is spoken, semantics and pragmatics, and changes in the language.

This social psychology course is designed for international relations majors to understand the role of psychosocial processes in the field of international relations. It explores the conceptual relationship between social psychology and international relations. This course discusses the processes of social influence, identity, perception, and memory, as well as attitudinal, cognitive, and behavioral processes. 

This course is the continuation of the intermediate level and serves as a bridge to further study of Spanish language and culture. Students work on refining their writing and speaking skills by engaging in a variety of integrated language tasks. Nuance grammar concepts will be explored in complex sentences and structures using discourse markers and connectors.

This course focuses on the application of knowledge about basic psychological processes (attention, perception, memory, and related processes) to the collection and evaluation of testimonial evidence. Topics include: the accuracy of witness statements; obtaining statements; false statements; statement evaluation; processes in the identification of persons; lineups; identification evaluation procedures; applied aspects of psychology of testimony.