COURSE SYLLABUS: CONTEMPORARY MEXICO

Location: Oaxaca City, Mexico

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

Course Title: Contemporary Mexico

Course Title (Spanish): México Contemporáneo

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-MP 365

Course Description

The student will learn about the language and culture of Mexico through studying the general history of Mexico during the decades from the 20th to the 21st century.

Program

Topic: The Mexican Revolution, Francisco I. Madero, Carranza and Emiliano Zapata

Activity: Auditory comprehension and reading

Topic: The political parties and the consolidation of institutions

Activity: Reading comprehension

Topic: Cultural movements: The muralists: Diego Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco

Activity: Oral comments and written presentations

Topic: Literature of the revolution: Gregorio López y Fuentes, Juan Rulfo

Activity: Discussion and evaluation

Topic: The student movement of 1968

Activity: Oral presentation and discussion

Topic: The counterrevolution and the “cristero” movements

Activity: Oral presentation and critical analysis

Topic: Cardenismo (educated and political economy)

Activity: Group presentation and revision of the individual investigations

Topic: Guerilla movements of Genéro Vásquez, Lucio Cabañas and the EZLN

Activity: Group research and class presentations

Topic: Presidentialism and the triumph of Vicente Fox

Activity: Research

Topic: Neo-liberalism and US-Mexico relations (1982 – 2000)

Activity: Final evaluation, presentation and exposition of research

Course Evaluation

• Class presentation: 30%
• Essay: 40%
• Attendance: 30%

The student will give oral presentations in class on topics researched in public libraries and from the bibliography. At the end of the course the student will turn in a written essay with a minimum of 7 written pages (in Spanish) and a bibliography that should include a minimum of 7 sources.

Bibliography

• Broom, Juan.- Esbozo de Historia de México.- Editorial Grijalva.- Séptima reimpresión.- México 1998

• Historia general de México.- SEP-COLMEX.- tomos II y III.- Primera reimpresión.- México 1998.

• López y Fuentes Gregorio.- El Indio.- Editorial botas S. A.- 12 Edición.- México 1990.

• López Gallo, Manuel.- Economía y Política en la Historia de México.- 11ava Edición.- Ediciones el Caballito S. A.- México 1975.

• Mancisidor, José.- Historia de la Revolución Mexicana.- 16ava Edición.- Editores Unidos Mexicanos.- México 1985.

• Rodríguez, Alonso Ávila Enrique y Andaluz Carlos.- Lecciones de Historia de México.- Editorial Trillas.- México 1994.

• Rulfo, Juan.- El llano en llamas.- Editorial fondo de la Cultura Económica.- Tercera reimpresión.- México 1982.

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