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GENERAL GOAL
Analyze the political, economic,
social, and cultural processes during the given period between the weakening of
the feudal order and the nationalist movements of the 19th
Century. With this knowledge, the students
will reflect on their current historical reality.
SYLLABUS
1.
Introduction to the investigation
methods of social sciences applied to history
2.
Transition from feudalism to
capitalism
3.
The Old Regime: cultural dimension
and thought
4.
The Old Regime: economic dimension
5.
The Old Regime: social dimension
6.
The Old Regime: political dimension
7.
The Old Regime: the role of the
Church
8.
From agricultural society to urban
society: the Industrial Revolution
9.
The Independence of English colonies
in North America
10. The Independence of Spanish colonies in Latin America
11. The French Revolution
12. Napoleon’s Empire
13. The Congress of Vienna
14. The Bourgeois Revolutions of the 19th Century
15. Nationalist Movements
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GENERAL GOAL
Analyze the political, economic,
social, and cultural processes from the end of the 19th Century
until the end of the Cold War, establishing relations with the world today.
1.
19th Century Ideology
2.
Imperialism
3.
World War I
4.
The Russian Revolution
5.
The Period between wars: bonanza and
economic crisis, crisis in democracies and totalitarian systems.
6.
World War II
7.
The Cold War and decolonization
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GENERAL GOAL
At the end of the course,
the students will be able to analyze the different historical processes that
have been part of the reality of our country and value the multicultural
conformation of our nation as a complex and multicausal process. The students will develop a personal point
of view of the events throughout the history of Mexico with adequate oral and
written communication, which will allow them to realize the importance of
actively participating in the construction of our society.
SYLLABUS
1.
Mesoamerica
2.
New Spain
3.
Mexico
Ph3002
HISTORY AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS
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GENERAL GOAL
The students who graduate
from this high school will be capable of establishing theoretical and practical
tools, for determining what is a work of art, considering the history of the
arts as an expression of social communication. They will learn the principal artistic periods and elements of
continuity and rupture. They will also learn to make value judgments in the
appreciation of the arts and develop the collaborative skills of describing,
analyzing, classifying, and enjoying art as creators and as sensitive and informed
spectators, with the purpose of living art, becoming intimately richer beings,
more tolerant of diversity of opinions, styles, ideologies, and forms of
life. These tools will promote respect
and pride in their cultural heritage, through their participation and
responsibility in all collaborative learning activities, that will awaken their
sensibilities and commitment through a creatively developed project in the art
workshop, so they will be conscious of their important and responsible role as
active agents of their own history in this new century.
SYLLABUS
1.
Basic concepts and
general elements of artistic appreciation
2.
Prehistory
3.
Early civilizations
4.
Classical world and
paleocristian times
5.
Middle Ages
6.
Renaissance
7.
European and new
Hispanic baroque
8.
European and new
Hispanic neoclassicism
9.
Romanticism and realism
10.
Impressionism,
neoimpressionism, and postimpressionism
11.
Modern Art
Ph3006
HISTORY AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS
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GENERAL GOAL
The students who graduate
from this high school will be capable of establishing theoretical and practical
tools, for determining what is a work of art, considering the history of the
arts as an expression of social communication. They will learn the principal artistic periods and elements of
continuity and rupture. They will also learn to make value judgments in the
appreciation of the arts and develop the collaborative skills of describing,
analyzing, classifying, and enjoying art as creators and as sensitive and
informed spectators, with the purpose of living art, becoming intimately richer
beings, more tolerant of diversity of opinions, styles, ideologies, and forms
of life. These tools will promote
respect and pride in their cultural heritage, through their participation and responsibility
in all collaborative learning activities, that will awaken their sensibilities
and commitment through a creatively developed project in the art workshop, so
they will be conscious of their important and responsible role as active agents
of their own history in this new century.
SYLLABUS
1.
Basic concepts and
general elements of artistic appreciation
2.
Prehistory
3.
Early civilizations
4.
Classical world and
paleocristian times
5.
Middle Ages
6.
Renaissance
7.
European and new Hispanic
baroque
8.
European and new Hispanic
neoclassicism
9.
Romanticism and realism
10.
Impressionism, neoimpressionism,
and postimpressionism
11.
Modern Art
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GENERAL GOAL
The students will
understand the most general principles which underlie the social, economical,
and political phenomena of societies in general, in order to facilitate the
adoption of a participative and constructive attitude toward their environment.
Syllabus:
1.
Basic concepts
2.
Society and its
constitutive elements
3.
Economy and its basic
elements
4.
Microeconomics
5.
Macroeconomics
6.
The State
7.
The individual and
politics
At the end of the course the student
will be able to:
Understand the basic principles of
the science of economics and its application in daily activities.
Understand the different economic
models through the elaboration of graphs and the manipulation of economic
variables.
Acquire the skills to investigate
and learn in groups, working in collaborative activities and teamwork.
Elaborate critical judgments related
to the economy, showing leadership and creativity in the solution of cases and
teamwork.
The course is divided into six
modules, which are seen during the semester.
Each module has a series of subtopics or subdivisions that are of
interests to students.
With this organization it is
expected that two modules be seen each month.
The modules of the course are
divided in the following way:
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GENERAL GOAL
The students will have an
overall vision of the main economic, political, social , and cultural phenomena
that affect the international society.
The students will understand their environment and the importance of
their participation in and out of the national context, with which he will
generate future scenarios based on the critical analysis of information about
past and present events. As a result of
the course, they will adopt a proactive and positive attitude supported by a
high sensitivity to the international environment.
SYLLABUS
1.
Basic elements of international
analysis
2.
New World Order
3.
Regional Scenarios
4.
Integration processes
5.
International Society
6.
21st Century challenges.
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GENERAL GOAL
Through the treatment of
fundamental matters and the consideration of the philosophical tradition we
inherited, promote in students the development of rigorous, committed and consistent
thought, as well as a critical attitude
toward themselves, their environment and reality in general.
SYLLABUS
1.
Discovery of the truth
2.
Transformation of the
world
3.
The human being and his
mission
4.
The reason for human
existence
5.
Evaluation
Ph6002
SOCIOECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF MEXICO
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GENERAL GOAL
The students will be able
to analyze the social, economic, political, and cultural environment of Mexico
today, with the purpose of becoming conscious of the challenges and
perspectives that the country is going through.
SYLLABUS
1.
General
characterization of Mexico
2.
Political structure of
Mexico
3.
Economic structure of
Mexico
4.
Social structure of
Mexico
5.
Culture in Mexico
Department: Humanities
y Social studies
Units: 2 2 5
Requirement: To be in sixth semester
Equivalence: To6001
Introduction
Despite the ever increasing spread of Globalization the World is still split
into several distinct and diverse regions. The history and cultural backgrounds
to these regions have been shaped over the centuries by the common events
of war, trade, religion and language but all with a unique flavor that gives
that region its own characteristics. It is these differences and in some cases
similarities which one must understand to achieve a complete global vision
of the present world.
The topic “Regional Studies” will present some reflections and elements from a cultural, economic, political, and historic perspective of the diverse regions of the planet, in order to allow you to understand the possibilities you have as an agent of change in a global environment.
When "globalization" is spoken of, we tend to identify it with the process of economic globalization, forgetting the social, cultural, and political dimensions. The course has the intention to integrate the cultural aspect of globalization through geographical regions. The purpose will be to enhance understanding of globalization as the passage of traditional cultural identities through the 20th Century and on into the postmodern world of the 21st Century.
You will be able to discover
through the course that the cultural identities of different regions are not
simply structured around Nation-States, but are also related to the market
place through the means of industrial production, communication by the mass
media, and the use of technology as well as the diverse consumption of both
consumer goods and raw materials.
Without a cultural and global dimension it is very difficult to give coherence
to a study of the contemporary world in which migration, nationalism, religion
and ethnic conflicts have an equivalent influence on the international stage.
The political economy and international relations models in force at present
do not fully explain this phenomenon. Therefore they cannot make sense or
provide political solutions to the multidimensional problems that we face
today.
In the political environment, the variations in a regions culture can have a strong influence on international politics with regards to values, actors and mechanisms of the internal political life of the developing countries. Thus, for example, extensive migratory flows originating from other cultures have modified the social, cultural, political and economic situations of many European countries and of the United States. In Asia, Africa, Latin America and the countries of the Islam, as in Oriental Europe and in former Soviet Union regions, the Cold War is removed and an abrupt opening to the world markets is produced, accompanied by traumatic processes of restructuring and modernization.
General intentions:
1. Introducing to the student interested in the Social Sciences and Humanities how to undertake a regional perspective in able to understand the problems of the contemporary world since the end of the Cold War.
2. Linking the student of prep school with the curriculum contents of the careers that depend on the area of Social Sciences and Humanities.
3. Developing abilities of critical thought, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the information and the capacity of identifying and resolving problems, in order to achieve an interest and knowledge on the themes of the course.
4. Developing an inclusive, tolerant global vision, regarding present situations in the diverse regions of the world: Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
General objectives:
1. Looking at the historic context of the world at the end of the XX Century to understand the causes behind the rise of diverse problems of the social, economic, and political kind in the regions of Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
2. Knowing the impact of migration towards the end of the XX century to understand its influence in the structural changes of the regions of Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
3. Promoting a spirit of democratic openness and a respect towards human rights through the study of the basic cultures of Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
4. Studying the economic systems of the regions Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East to understand their impact on society and future global cooperation.
Contents of the course:
I. Asia, Bringing us closer
to the Far East
1. General Information
• Geography – Political and physical divisions
• Population and Migration
• Culture: Society, religion and Traditions
• Economy
• Political systems
2. Historical Context – 20th Century
3. Case Study - China: The New Economic Superpower
II. Eastern Europe: The
process of Reconstruction
1. General information
• Geography – Political and physical divisions
• Population and Migration
• Culture: Society, religion and Traditions
• Economy
• Political systems
2. Historical Context – 20th Century
3. Case Study – The Advance of Democracy
III. Africa: A Continent
Adrift
1. General Information
• Geography – Political and physical divisions
• Population and Migration
• Culture: Society, religion and Traditions
• Economy
• Political systems
2. Historical Context – 20th Century
3. Case Study – AIDS
IV. The Middle East –
A conflict of Interests
1. General Information
• Geography – Political and physical divisions
• Population and Migration
• Culture: Society, religion and Traditions
• Economy
• Political systems
2. Historical Context – 20th Century
3. Case Study – Islam in the Middle East
Methodology
In Prepa TEC you are partly
responsible for obtaining your knowledge which means that you won't simply
wait for your teacher to provide all the information. They will support you
and guide you at all times but, you will make vital contributions to fulfill
and develop your knowledge of course that you are studying. You will also
be responsible to fulfill each one of the activities that are found on this
course be they in groups or as an individual.
In order to learn on your own you will observe, compare, relate to, analyze,
synthesize, and evaluate information in texts, videos, works of art, primary
sources, etc. all of this, in activities that will be developed inside and
outside the classroom as an individual or in a group.
Your teacher is a guide that will facilitate the acquisition of information
and clarify your doubts. They will develop in you the ability to recognize
the different cultures that exist in the regions we will be studying and to
allow you to have a level of tolerance and understanding of the various societies
that inhabit those regions.
There are evaluations set for the course regarding all aspects of the work
that will be done. You have the responsibility of meeting all the objectives
set by these evaluations.
Inside the course you will develop the following abilities characteristic
of the area of Social Sciences:
a. analysis of sources (primary and secondary)
b. geographical location, political diversity, religious tolerance
c. cause-effect relationships
d. use of a historical and cultural vocabulary
e. historical perspective
f. written and oral expression
You will put into practice several learning strategies such as:
a. Reading
b. Analysis of cases
c. bibliographical investigations and newspaper research (written and electronic)
d. simulations or role play
e. Analysis of texts, images and videos.
All of this is done with the purpose that you are able to comprehend the basic
elements of the regions that are studied in the course.
Evaluation
Partial
Activities 50%
Maps 10%
Discussion Board 10%
Exam 30%
Final
Partial Average 50%
Final Work 10%
Fourth Partial 10%
Final Exam 30%
Ph6012
Academic department: Social
Sciences
Units: 3 2 8
Requirement: 5th Semester
Semester and career: 6th Semester
Equivalence: To6002
General aim of the course: The objective of this subject is helping the student develop a holistic view on the importance of Finance Administration in the business world, through the study and understanding of several areas which compose an organization, as well as pursuing those skills that are necessary in order to perform effective administration.
Campus: Monterrey
Bibliography: Nickes, McHugh y Mc Hugo.Understanding Business.
McGraw Hill. Nueva York: 2005
Instructor's profile: B.A. in Business Administration, Finance, International
Commerce and Marketing; Chemical Engineer, Administrator, Public Accountant.
Skills in teaching middle school are required.
Language of Instruction: English for Bicultural Program and Spanish for Bilingual
program