By the end of this course, students will have learned the narrative foundations of the short story as a literary genre and its leading exponents through history. This knowledge will allow students to get tools to apply in their own creative process, and review other narrative works from a critical point of view.
The aim of this course is to acquaint students with and discuss the main theoreticians of contemporary sociological schools to apply their insights in strategies to solve social issues.
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.
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 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.