COURSE SYLLABUS: MEXICAN ECONOMY

Location: Oaxaca City, Mexico

Partner Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO)

Course Title: Mexican Economy

Course Title (Spanish): Economía Mexicana Contemporánea (1934-2000)

Sessions offered: summer, winter, semester, spring break, intensive sessions

Instructional language: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Pre-requisites: Advanced I Spanish

Local Department: Español para Extranjeros

Course Code: SP-ME 365

Course Description

This course makes a political-economic evaluation of the different governments in Mexico since the Mexican Revolution. A socio-economic analysis is made from Cardenismo to the most recent governments of the 20th century (1934-2000). The book used for this course is “The Syndrome of the Subsystem” (El Síndrome del Subsistema, Colegio de Investigadores y la Facultad de Idiomas de la Universidad Autónoma “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca.).

Program

• Revolutionary nationalism
• The constitution of 1917 and the rise of the Institutions. Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940)
• Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970 11976 )
• José López Portillo (1976-1982 )
• Neoliberalism
• The presence of international financial organization and the political economy
• Miguel de la Madrid
• Carlos Salinas de Gortari
• Ernesto Zedillo
• Vicente Fox

Course Evaluation

Attendance: 20%

Research: 30%

Analysis and presentation: 25%

Final project: 25%

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