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Seminario de Investigación I, II, III y IV
These seminars are aimed to the development of the thesis’ projects by individualized counseling work, fostering the conclusion of the Master’s thesis on time, that is, in two and a half years. Every seminar determines the relevant bibliography in each student’s project. This 2017’ update of the Master’s program is a space for the critic and writing practice, redirecting it as follows:
1. The tutorial committees are responsible for guiding the students’ face-to-face meetings (every fortnight), in which the students present reports of the advances in their research work. These reports and the thesis’ advances are proof of their semester evaluation.
2. These meetings are a space for the students to be critical, defend their proposals, share theoretical information and analyze methodological options to carry out every particular study.
3. A specific percentage of the thesis’ advance is required every coursed semester: first semester 10%, consisting of the research project’s definition and the first bibliographical reviews; second semester 30%, consisting of the state of art or the first chapter; third semester 60%, consisting of the second chapter containing a well-defined analysis methodology and a clear conceptual map; fourth semester 100%, including the third analysis chapter. The latter is dedicated to revise the thesis and write the introduction and conclusion.
4. The tutorial committees evaluate the achievement of every semester goals and designate the pertinent grade.
Literature Seminars
These seminars are aimed to the presentation of themes and problems that, within the Mexican literature field, have been scarcely studied or that require to be studied through new perspectives and different analysis methods than those used so far. The purpose of these seminars is to open a space that enables to critically study Mexican literature and to discuss themes that are still current in our culture and society. These four Literature seminars correspond to the esthetic movements and their correlative analysis axis. In one semester, for example, the student takes a seminar focused on the study of Baroque’s manifestation, understood not as a historical-chronological moment, but as ethic-esthetic problems, of poetry, literary thinking and genre. The other three literature seminars proceed similarly, focusing on Romanticism, Realism and Modernity studies.
Literary Theory Seminars
These seminars are oriented to the critical review of literary theory proposals that allow the understanding of Mexican artistic special features. The seminars are focused on updating the students’ conceptual competences and methodology, that are essential to critical practice, as well as to identifying the specific modes in which the literary thinking has consolidated in the Hispanic-American field, specifically the Mexican field. This has led to the development of theory that emerges from the problems posed by the Mexican and the subcontinent literature and culture.
Optional Courses
These courses are conceived as ideal spaces for the students, based on the knowledge of the studies and investigations carried out at the institute and the tools developed in it, to establish their criteria regarding the lines of investigation, in which the students can participate and be guided during the fulfillment of their studies and research. Therefore, these courses constitute the appropriate platform to encourage and to narrow the link between the students and the different projects of the researchers in the institute. The professors at the institute, according to the lines of investigation they currently develop, suggest different courses every semester.
In the same way, these optional courses must be seen as the opportunity for a space where students establish interdisciplinary relations, since the tutors may advice them to take one or two optional courses in other postgraduate programs offered by the UV in the Humanities area; or to take the optional courses that are offered by the Doctorate in Hispanic Literature (Doctorado en Literatura Hispanoamericana).
