LITE - Literature
This course focuses on an approach to the main questions posed by literature, such as its origin, its relationship with reality, with the receiver, with other fields of human experience, its transcendence, etc. This brings students into contact with literary text by means of the analysis of aspects such as genre, poetic and narrative resources (versification, rhetorical figures, composition, time, place, action, narrator, construction and presentation of characters). With the tools provided, hypotheses are formulated and discussed keeping the connotational, multi-faceted and historic nature of poetic language in perspective.
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3
This course provides students with an introduction to the most outstanding problems of literary theory. Although the critical perspective is from out century, a presentation will be given on the critical tradition of the ancient world. The main purpose is to make it easier for students to access texts of contemporaneous critical theory thanks to their familiarity with the poetry of authors such as Plato and Aristotle.
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3
The purpose of this course is to study language in order to comprehend and have an in-depth understanding of this phenomenon: it makes reference to general and modern theories to then explain what the objective observation of language consists of, the aspects and dimensions of the complexity of linguistics, the components that define its nature and object of study, notions and procedures regarding the different currents of linguistic theory. This theoretic panorama is complemented with certain knowledge on the history of the discipline.
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3
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3
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Ramirez Sierra Hugo
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3
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3
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3
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Ramirez Sierra Hugo
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3
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Martinez Orozco Maria
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3
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Cote Botero Andrea
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3
Students start out in their understanding of Latin starting with its basic syntactic and grammar elements, going on to reading and the interpretation of classic texts.
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3
Instructor
De Zubiria Rueda Manuel
Students start out in their understanding of the Greek language starting with its basic syntactic and grammar elements, going on to reading and the interpretation of classic texts.
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3
This course complements the basic syntactic and grammar knowledge of Latin acquired in Course I. Emphasis is placed on learning third person conjugation based on the reading of selected texts.
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3
Instructor
Chinchilla Gutierrez Empeñatriz
This course starts out with an introduction to novels as a literary genre and its leading role in the French 19th Century, to study some of the main authors including Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Maupassant. The course will analyze: Pere Goriot, Red and Black, Madame Bovary and Bel Ami, to examine the procedures by means of which these pieces delve into the analysis of society. It also studies the narrative techniques that appear in an innovative manner in the different pieces and the theoretic conceptions on literature and love exposed by the masters in their essays and correspondence.
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3
Instructor
Montilla Vargas Claudia
This course is focused on the analysis of Death in Venice and Magic Mountain, two of the main novels of the Nobel Prize 1929, which discuss the problems of the artist in relation to ethical, aesthetic and social conflicts, before World War I (the Belle Epoque). Mann takes on these conflicts in a complex, contradictory manner, with e+E2012xtraordinary expertise in psychological and socio-aesthetic issues.
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3
It will study Goethe´s life and work, placing him in history and time. In addition, it will analyze two of his works that represent two basic periods in the author´s life: The romantic novel Werther and Fausto, first part, his more representative work in the classic genre.
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3
Instructor
Gomez Patarroyo Eduardo
This course is set out to as an approach to the process of creating the characters in Shakespeare works, and in doing so, we will be at the core of his drama work. To this end, we will study texts that belong to the three genres in which classify his drama work is divided: tragedy, comedy and historical drama. Furthermore, through these works, the student will be brought to the knowledge of one of the main chapters of the western drama, which is the theatre performed in London between 1560 and 1642, known as Elizabethan Theater.
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3
Instructor
Camacho Guisado Ricardo
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3
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Goenaga Francia
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3
The great Greek narrative is made up of a series of fascinating stories with a wonderful literary quality which unveil the western literature. Odysseus´ adventures, his fights to death looking for the glory with Achilles as the leader, the tales about the Olympus Gods´ birth and life, and the risky journey of the Argonauts looking for the golden fleece, these are the well known topics this course will cover. We will analyze the life of some who have always symbolized heroism, love, knowledge, joy of life, adventure, and fascination about death. The students will be guided so they can focus on different ways of studying these works, according to their unique features and the various analyses proposed will be the subject of debate among students.
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3
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3
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Camacho Guisado Ricardo
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3
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Vidart Novo Martin
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3
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Von Der Walde Uribe Giselle
By borrowing the title of Jenefer Robinson’s book, this course attempts to analyze the place and the treatment given to emotions in classic works of world literature. As the central topic of many pieces, emotion becomes the theme of the narrations on which we will focus this semester. The analysis will concentrate on decoding the way characters are constructed – destroyed while chasing after their emotions. At the same time, it will attempt to disentangle the position of each period regarding moods reflected in the pieces themselves. Students will read Medea by Euripides or Seneca, Shakespeare’s Othello, parts of Enchiridion by Epictetus, a selection of rhymes by Becquer, a part of the Iliad, De Ira (On Anger) by Seneca and Memories of Adriano by Yourcenar.
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3
Instructor
Lozano Vasquez Andrea
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3
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3
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Camacho Guisado Ricardo
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3
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Lozano Vasquez Andrea
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3
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Andrade Restrepo Maria
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
This workshop is intended for the student to practice writing and lead them to ponder about the responsibilities implied in writing, focusing on two genres: tales and poetry.
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3
Instructor
Bonnett Velez Piedad
This workshop attempts to put students to work writing poems and brief narrative texts, making them familiar with language techniques and resources that are typical of these genres and reflect on the creative process and its ethical and aesthetic scopes.
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3
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Bonnett Velez Piedad
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3
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Caicedo Palacios Adolfo
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3
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Sanin Paz Carolina
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3
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Barrero Fajardo Mario
This course is designed to promote reading and writing skills that allow students to properly face the intellectual challenges that they will find in their academic and professional lives. Firstly, the course encourages students to read articles, reports or books written for a specialized audience. Secondly, it stimulates students to make connections between various sources and compare different types of explanations. Thirdly, it exhorts students to construct academic arguments based on substantiated, independent and critical positions.
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3
Instructor
Iglesias Melendez Lorena
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2
Instructor
Bayona Romero Hector
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2
Instructor
Bayona Romero Hector
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
Romanticism originated the essential characteristics of modern poetry: Marking pace more than metrics, free verse, blank spaces and typographic marks to express silence, negative categories used to explain poems, the use of hyperbaton to express the fragmentation of reality, the uselessness of syntax or a poem´s tendency to narrate. The course examines the theoretic assumptions of English and German romanticism, and the works of William Blank, to recognize the theoretic fundamentals of the English poet. Similarly, the theoretic assumptions of Symbolism are studied in the work of the modern poet par excellence, Charles Baudelaire, and those of Surrealism in the novel Nadja by Andre Breton.
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3
Instructor
Goenaga Francia
Mandatory requirement to obtain title of Writer, according to the student’s research interests: narrative gender (novel, story, tale) Lyric (poetry), literary movement or historical problem, literature theory or critic. It is a monographic research work under the direction of a Professor and it does not require the students’ full attendance to the university’s campus.
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3
Instructor
Andrade Restrepo Maria
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3
The course takes a descriptive journey through the states and levels of a language in order to understand the linguistic characteristics of Spanish in its different stages.
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3
Instructor
Diaz Moreno Myriam
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3
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3
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3
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Sanin Paz Carolina
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3
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Solodkow David
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
This course delves into the study of the Latin language, by reading and interpreting advanced classic texts from Roman culture. The reading of Cicero, Catullus, Ovid and Virgil complete the panorama.
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3
Instructor
Chinchilla Gutierrez Empeñatriz
This course delves into the study of the Greek language, by reading and interpreting advanced classic texts from Greek culture. The reading of Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sappho and Sophocles complete the panorama.
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3
Instructor
Chinchilla Gutierrez Empeñatriz
Apply the knowledge of grammar and syntax of the Latin language acquired in courses prior to the reading and interpretation of Latin authors. Special emphasis is placed on verb syntax.
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3
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3
Instructor
Chinchilla Gutierrez Empeñatriz
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3
Instructor
Diaz Moreno Myriam
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3
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Diaz Moreno Myriam
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3
Instructor
Vidart Novo Martin
In addition to being a simple panoramic view of some of the central texts of literary tradition in Brazil, this course attempts to reflect on the connections and divergences between this literature and that of the rest of Latin America. Therefore, we will follow a problematic periodization in order to see how certain currents that are central to writing in Latin America (Modernism, regionalist writing, boom, the Dictator Novel) have slightly different manifestations in the Brazilian setting, for historic and cultural reasons. On another note, the course aims to familiarize students with contemporaneous literary theory centered on Brazilian literature with its different aspects.
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3
Instructor
Ferreira Maria
This course will examine three tale collections in their historic and cultural contexts: the Arabian collection Arabian Nights (6-14th Century) and the Castilian collections adapted from Arabian Kalila and Dimna (8th Century) and Sendebar (8th Century). The pieces will be analyzed in their literary, didactic (as transmitters of ethic, spiritual, political and aesthetic knowledge) and historic (as products of the traffic of fiction between Medieval Europe and the Middle East) dimensions, and as meeting points between oral tradition and writing). It will also study its influence on the formation of the modern genres of short stories and novels, as well as the formation of modern authors and readers. Reading the medieval works suggested in this course will help identify the main themes and motivations present in the medieval beginnings of vernacular literature that continue to affect their ulterior development.
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3
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Sanin Paz Carolina
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3
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3
Instructor
Montilla Vargas Claudia
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
This course will study the reformist Latin American current of the Spanish Language that emerged in the late 19th Century, known as Modernism, within the context of the growth of Latin American cities, the signs of uncertainly, loss of faith and the collapse of the burgess social order. Aware of the autonomy of art, Modernist writers aesthetically express the human and social contradictions of this crisis. In order to understand these phenomena, the course will study the narrative, essay and poetic genre of the first modernist generation (Jose A. Silva, Julian del Casal, Ruben Dario and Jose Marti), and make a transition to vanguard poetry through Lopez Velarde and Leopoldo Lugones.
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3
Instructor
Solodkow David
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3
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3
Instructor
Alzate Cadavid Carolina
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3
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3
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3
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3
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Andrade Restrepo Maria
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3
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Barrero Fajardo Mario
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3
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Barrero Fajardo Mario
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3
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3
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Iriarte Nuñez Amalia
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
Essential requirement to receive a degree in letters in accordance with the students’ research interests: Narrative genre (novel, short story), lyrical genre (poetry), literary movement or problem in history, literary theory or criticism. This is a monographic research project carried out under the guidance of a professor and does not require the students’ permanent attendance at the university.
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3
Graduation program that allows students to acquire research experience as assistants for one of the Department’s research groups.
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6
This seminar is designed for students of literature who choose to write a graduation thesis as the final requirement of their undergraduate program. This course is to be enrolled through the program´s Academic Coordinator. Enrollment is only allowed with the endorsement of a professor from the Department, must clearly indicate that he/she is familiar with the student´s research topic and will advise and serve as a guide for the project during the course of the semester. The seminar coordinator assists students in their study of the status of the research topics chosen, their pertinence, the methodological elements and the core concepts involved in carrying out the graduation thesis.
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6
Instructor
Von Der Walde Uribe Giselle
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6
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0
This graduation option gives students the chance to complement a strictly academic education with experience in companies and institutions. This program can be accessed by means of the offers posted by the Professional Experience Center or directly applied for by the students.
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6
Instructor
Alzate Cadavid Carolina
The practice of reading and writing is closely linked to a series of assumptions regarding the subject. Starting in the 18th and 19th Centuries, the subject became a central individual, the origin or motivations, acts and discourse. This notion of the subject has come to a crisis, in the theory as well as the literature of the 20th Century. The identity of the subject with itself has been questioned, in theoretic as well as psychoanalytical texts (Freud, Lacan), literary texts and certain autobiographical writing (Borges, Barthes). In addition, the subject has been brought off center as regards the laws of its desire, those of language that enable it to exist, those of power that make it possible. This forces use to rethink our reading practice. After the author’s death, the reading-writing duo cannot be understood as a dichotomy: Active-passive, codify-decode. The subject crisis also affects the way characters are constructed and read: their central role as agents, subjects that cause actions and discourse becomes blurred. Their subjectivity is not reflected in the writing: It takes place within and it is at the mercy of its games. This course analyzes how a series of theoretic and literary texts from the 20th century question the notion of the subject as an individual and how this crisis challenges three core notions for literary studies: the character, the author, the reader.
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3
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3
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3
The place of individual and otherness, as well as their relationship with everything (social or cultural) constitutes a concern for numerous theorists from different disciplines such as literary theory, philosophy, historiography and, in general, humanities and social sciences. The possibility or impossibility to reconcile individual with everything, and the challenges posed for the notion of justice, are also fundamental topics in different literary texts. The objective of this course is to study theoretic texts from different disciplines related to said problem, as well as their ethical and aesthetic implications. In addition, a few literary texts will be included in the discussion to enrich the dialog. The authors to be studied include Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Paul de Man, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Franz Kafka and Primo Levi.
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3
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3
Instructor
Ferreira Maria
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3
Instructor
Lozano Vasquez Andrea
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3
Instructor
Ramirez Sierra Hugo
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4
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4
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3
The course looks at the ethnic representations in Latin America from the Conquest to Independence. There will be a critical approach to a large heterogeneous mass of races, ethnicities and languages that fall under the various social discourses to explore and reflect on the multiple meanings of cultural differences and similarities constructed within colonial societies, on plantations, in mines, colonial cities and educated cities as well. It will examine the permanent construction, and challenge of reformulation of identity and otherness stories at different times of the Latin American cultural history. Also, the image formation of the savage, the evangelist, the stories about the failure of the Conquest, and the formation of hybrid identities. It will also explore the emergence of the criolla consciousness in America, between the American elites during the Baroque and the enlightenment in the XVII and XVIII centuries, and the tensions and ambivalences of the educated city and the others. As cultural resources we will use cartography, engraving, indigenous codices, paintings and films. Central themes: 1) The European imagination in front of the Discovery of the new land and people
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3
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3
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3
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3
Instructor
Gonzalez Saavedra Maria
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3
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Caicedo Palacios Adolfo
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3
Instructor
Goenaga Francia
This research seminar is for students in their first semester of the Master’s Program to guide them in delimiting the topic of the specialized article they will hand in as a graduation requirement, according to their research interests. The Coordinator assists students in their study of the status of the research topics chosen, their pertinence, the methodological elements and the core concepts involved in the type of article in mind.
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3
This research seminar is for students of the Master’s Program to facilitate their progress in carrying out their thesis. Students will work independently with their advisor, and the course coordinator will make sure the deadlines established to hand in partial work and course grades are met. The seminar is based on the idea that all research involves an attitude of inquiry and curiosity, inconformity as regards the responses available on a topic or problem of literary studies, the critical review of a primary and secondary bibliography, the discipline for disciplinary and interdisciplinary documentary research. Therefore, all research must be based on the full awareness of previous discussions on the matter and constitute a novel contribution, a reconsideration of previous research.
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3
Instructor
Solodkow David
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8
The student swill work with their tutor in preparing their research work.
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3
Instructor
Caicedo Palacios Adolfo
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6