NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Institute of Historical Research
House of the Humanities
diplomat
Mexico: a country, many stories
From August 23, 2016 to April 18, 2017
Tuesday, from 5 pm to 8 pm
120 hours
Academic coordination: Dr. Alfredo Ávila
Presentation
It is very common that the most popular version of Mexican history (through the school, the civic calendar and the mass media) is usually alien to the contributions made by professional historians, who almost never leave the medium. specialized to reach the broad public, interested in knowing the history of their own country. For this reason, a diploma is relevant, showing both the questions that historians formulate to the past and the answers they elaborate from research. The Institute of Historical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico is undoubtedly the right place to offer this knowledge, as part of its culture extension activities, and the House of Humanities, the most convenient venue to attract an educated public, but oblivious to the discipline.
objective
Present an overview of the history of Mexico, showing the most recent interpretations, themes and proposals of professional historians.
Public
Aimed at undergraduate students and graduates and the general public.
Duration
120 hours distributed in four modules (28 classroom sessions of three hours each, plus the time devoted to readings and the preparation of papers).
Module I. Ancient indigenous history
Coordinator: Dr. Miguel Pastrana Flores
The main objective of the first module is to offer the interested party a general and complete picture of the evolution of the peoples that made up the great cultural area that we know as Mesoamerica.
To achieve this purpose, the module is articulated in three axes. In the first place, an introductory section in which the main conceptual tools for the study of Mesoamerica are pointed out, and at the same time give a frame of reference to the whole module. Secondly, a historical vision of the cultural development of the main sites and towns is provided, as well as an outline of the political, social and economic structures characteristic of the stages in which Mesoamerican time has been divided; to this four sessions are allocated. In the third place, two sessions are dedicated to the study of two of the main Mesoamerican cultures, Maya and Nahuatl, as concrete examples of the history of indigenous peoples.
Without being properly a specialized course, it is intended to give a coherent, current vision, well grounded in the most serious research and provide the most solid interpretations of the ancient indigenous past of present-day Mexico.
1. Introduction to Mesoamerica
2. Sources for the knowledge of Mesoamerica
3. The Preclassic
4. The Classic
5. The Postclassic
6. Society and Mayan culture
7. Nahuatl society and culture
Module II. The New Spain
Coordinator: Dr. Iván Escamilla
New Spain was one of the richest and most important colonial spaces of the Spanish empire, as it not only contributed significant percentages of wealth for the construction and maintenance of the Crown, but represented an important frontier with immense possibilities of expansion but also of vulnerability.
The cultural construction of New Spain society as a pluri-ethnic and peripheral reality marked its mark on Western culture but constituted a universe in itself and managed to articulate its own identity. For the native Americans colonization meant the end of the world as they knew it and the beginning of the construction of numerous local cultures marked by the sign of violent changes.
These transformations were the starting point of complex processes of hybrid cultural gestation in societies that passed between the extremes of extermination and confrontation, until the incorporation or total disappearance. However, in most of the colonial territory, Indians, Spaniards, black Africans and some Asians wove themselves into sophisticated negotiation processes that produced an extraordinary variety of local cultures. On the other hand, the regional elites based their state of comfort on the state and corporate regime that characterized the old regime. This status quo went into crisis for the reforms that, with the intention of controlling better and making the imperial administration more profitable, undertook the Crown in the 18th century; nevertheless, this meant the beginning of the end of the colonial regime and especially of the jewel more prized among the American colonies.
1. The military conquests: domination and negotiation
2. Church, evangelization and local Christianity
3. Government, institutions and justice
4. Economy and society novohispanas
5. Culture and identities from New Spain
6. The art of New Spain
7. From kingdom to colony: the Bourbon reforms
Module III. XIX century
Coordinator: Dr. Alfredo Ávila
The third module aims to show the main interpretations and recent issues surrounding the construction of the Mexican national state, from the crisis of the Spanish monarchy to its consolidation. To achieve this goal, we will use the reading of recently published dissemination works and will try to show the different facets of the same reality. In this sense, the module does not strictly follow a chronological order, but one in which themes are combined with economic, political, social and cultural aspects.
1. The crisis of the colonial order
2. Independence and the construction of the State
3. The daily life between the crisis of the colonial order and the independent Mexico
4. Mexico and the world
5. The Mexican liberalisms
6. Art and culture
7. The Mexican economy in the 19th century
Module IV. The twentieth century
Coordinator: Dr. Sergio Miranda
From the end of the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz to the arrival of the PAN to the presidency of the Republic in 2000, Mexico went through many transformations. Mainly, during most of the century, the corporatist and clientelist regime that emerged from the Revolution subjected the basic structures of the country to the control of a single political party, provoking a series of social, political and economic crises that produced, at the end of the century, access to the power of the opposition. In turn, the welfare state gave way to neoliberal policies, while the rural face of society mutated into an urban one, insecure and threatened by organized crime. New social actors, as well as the older ones, endorsed their presence and demands through important social movements. These phenomena did not stop having their correlate in the daily life and in the cultural expressions of the society, especially in the cinema.
1. The twentieth century: political moments, cultural discussions and economic crises
2. The economy and its transformations
3. The Federal District and Mexico City: Urbanization and Political Reform
4. An asymmetric relationship? Mexico and the United States in the 20th century
5. The indigenous subject in Mexico. Historical ethnography of the nation and its otherness
6. Recent past. Social memory of state violence
7. The Mexican 20th century visual culture
General information
Entry requirements
· Management of email and basic Internet tools
· Curriculum profile (one page)
· Letter of explanatory memorandum
· Sign commitment letter
Permanence requirements
· 80% attendance
· Reading of the basic bibliography assigned by the coordinators
· Active participation during the sessions
· Preparation of a work at the end of each module
· Payment of fees on the dates indicated
Requirements for obtaining the diploma
· Having met the permanency requirements
· Approval of the four modules
cost
$ 12,000.00 General public (four payments of $ 3,000.00)
$ 9,600.00 Payment in one issue.
$ 9,000.00 UNAM community with valid credential and INAPAM members with a credential (four payments of $ 2,250.00)
Payment dates
First payment: before August 22, 2016
Second payment: before October 4, 2016
Third payment: before January 10, 2017
Fourth payment: before February 21, 2017
Loose modules
The price per loose module is $ 3,000.00. Payment and registration is made before the module starts.
Reports and inscriptions
5658-1121, 5554-5579 and 5554-8513 exts. 102, 106 and 110
Email: difhum@unam.mx
Headquarters
House of the Humanities
Av. Presidente Carranza 162, almost corner with Tres Cruces, Coyoacán, Mexico City, 04000.
www.historicas.unam.mx
www.cashum.unam.mx
Registration procedure
1. Reserve your place by phone or mail. You will be sent via email:
-Registration form
-Carta commitment
-Pay payment with unique and non-transferable reference number. You can make your deposit at any Bancomer branch.
2. We ask you to send an email to unam.cashum@gmail.com
-Full registration form
-Signed commitment letter
-Exposure letter of reasons
-Select of the curriculum (one page)
-Proof of payment that will be issued by the bank when making the deposit (scanned).
-Credit that accredits it as a UNAM or INAPAM community (scanned by both sides).
You can send these documents by mail or come to Casa de las Humanidades from Monday to Friday, from 1:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., to deliver them in the original.
The registration deadline for the entire diploma is Friday August 19 before 5 pm.
NOTE: Once the classes are started, no refund will be authorized, as it has already been formally registered. If for any reason you can not continue attending you must notify Casa de las Humanidades by means of a letter of withdrawal, the date and reason for leaving the diploma. We suggest you keep this in mind before formalizing your registration process.
