HU 2311 Social Change
The aim of this course is for students to understand the different sociological theories about domination, reproduction, and social change, and apply them to contemporary societies.
The aim of this course is for students to understand the different sociological theories about domination, reproduction, and social change, and apply them to contemporary societies.
Students will study the growth and transformation of cities through the analysis of the main theories that explain the phenomenon, the analysis of the current situation of urbanization and the study of some of the consequences of these processes.
Students will analyze specific approaches of different schools and authors that form the theoretical foundations of sociology in the 20th century, highlighting their main contributions to the understanding and explanation of social phenomena, as well as some of their weaknesses.
Upon conclusion of this course, students will understand an ideological and critical overview of the main contributions to contemporary sociological theory.
This course offers undergraduate students the opportunity to grasp what is understood today as religion, its nature, and its intrinsic characteristics. After a brief overview on the different methodologies used by different religious sciences, each student chooses a particular research subject to familiarize himself or herself with the worldview offered by a religion system (other than his/her own).
Upon concluion of this course, students will understand the effects of consumer culture and lifestyles correlated with the development of identity. They will also analyze the social structures and institutions that facilitate consumption, credit, and indebtedness.
This course aims to develop students' understanding of the parts of a publication and their fundamental elements regarding content as well as their physical creation, in order to be able to produce them.
Students will learn about the history and evolution of publishing, as well as about the basics of editing, writing, correcting, and formatting text in order to produce texts with such characteristics. This will be achieved through personal practice of writing and by reviewing and discussing in teams texts written by other authors.
The aim of this course is for students to learn about the history and evolution of publishing, as well as about the basic elements of editing, writing, correcting, and formatting texts in order to put them into practice.
The aim of this course is for students to review, discuss, and analyze different proposals that define literature in Latin America in order to obtain essential elements that could help understand the literary theories that exist today in order to become familiar with the narrative of some Latin American writers of the present century and be able to create similar texts.