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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

DESCRIPTION

• Emphasize on the main theories on the American man
• Study the main economic base of man until the transformation to a full-farmer
• Processes of the hunter and gatherer- Collector, budding farmer, full -farmer

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

• Analyze theories on the origin of the American man
• Study the cultural organization of this time period
• Study the economic and social organization of man during the various stages of prehistoric millenniums in what is now Mexican territory
• Analyze technological and cultural achievements
• Human population in regional Mexican environments and stages of cultural evolution.
• Economic bases of budding agriculture.
• Social organization.
• Technical and cultural achievements.
• Processes of the hunter and gatherer- Collector, budding farmer, full -farmer.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Lorenzo, José Luis, “Los orígenes Mexicanos” en Cosio Villegas, Daniel, Historia General de México.
• Bernal Ignacio, “Los Orígenes” en Cosio Villegas, Daniel, Historia mínima de México.
• León Portilla, Miguel, “Los Milenios Prehispánicos”, en México su Evolución Cultural.
• Aveleyra Arroyo de Anda, Luis, Los Cazadores primitivos en Mesoamérica.
• MacNeish, Richard, El origen de la civilización mesoamericana.