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The Doctorate in Hispanic American Literature incudes a total of 196 credits distributed over 8 semesters. This curriculum responds to a conception in which the central criteria of flexibility converge, with those suggested by CONACyT for the accreditation of academic training programs by the National Postgraduate System (NPS), which agree on the need to articulate flexibility and transversality. The aim for the training process is based essentially on the student’s self-learning, as well as to ensure the student’s integral formation through a curriculum oriented to the full development of his or her critical, creative and innovate capacity. Likewise, the coherent articulation of the formative experience and the researching exercise is sought, which would provide the students with a capacity to respond to the expectations of society.
The Doctorate in Hispanic American Literature seeks to train qualified human resources for the generation and applications of new knowledge required by our country to satisfy its social needs, to make viable, innovate and original proposals, and to actively participate in national and international forums concerning the discipline. Some of the purposes we are setting out are:
- To strengthen the research capacity to reach a thorough understanding of the problems that concern the discipline, as well as the themes, phenomena and problems that require special attention.
- To contribute to the advancement of literary studies on Hispanic American Literature, offering new perspectives of analysis and methods of study.
- Tot rain researchers in order to foster productivity and the expansion of job opportunities in the country.
In accordance with these goals, the program is based on a solid and high-quality education in an area of the subcontinent; and approach that fosters critical thinking and a consistent and flexible curricular organization that promotes the students’ individual skills and abilities. In general terms, these elements allow for an integral and qualified formation of critical, innovative and proactive professionals to meet the social and cultural demands of the country in the 21st century.
Mission
It seeks to consolidate itself as a graduate program of recognized quality, a national leader in literary studies, oriented to research and teaching of Hispanic American Literature, promoting the continental dialogue and its academic debate, and dedicated to the formation of critical, innovative and proactive graduates facing the social and cultural demands of the 21st century.
Vision
The PhD in Hispanic American Literature offers a quality educational offer to train excellent researchers and teachers in the field of Hispanic American literary studies, and to contribute to the generation and application of knowledge in accordance with regional, national, and international social needs.
General Objective
To develop the ability to generate and apply new knowledge in the field of Hispanic American literature through the elaboration of research Works in which:
a) New perspectives of analysis related to a cultural region are proposed.
b) Propose new perspectives of analysis related to periods, currents, groups of works, groups of authors or significant samples of a genre.
c) Propose and develop methods of study and models of analysis that are useful to explain periods, generations, works, genres, poetics, aesthetics, problems and phenomena that continue to be relevant and current within the field, or other new or emerging ones.
Particular Objectives
1. To promote the formation of new researchers, with specialized theoretical knowledge and methodological criteria pertinent to their objects of study, so that they will be able to study literary phenomena in their aesthetic specificity and in their historical and social context.
2. To train researchers capable of proposing, adapting, or innovating the pertinent theoretical-methodological tools for the study of literary phenomena.
3. To have a critical knowledge of the field of literary research, particularly in Hispanic American Literature.
4. To generate new lines of research in areas that are currently less studied.
