MAG INTRO EM23

Teacher´s info:
Sandra Gabriela Rodríguez.

Multicultural Program Director

• International Relations BA

• Master in International Studies

• Master in Human Rights and

Democracy

• Master in Education (currently

studying)

• e-mail: sandrarodriguez@tec.mx

You will learn about:

● Socioeconomic and

political reality in Mexico.

● Cultural inheritance,

current events and
challenges.

● Assess Mexico´s role in the

global affairs.

Module 4:
Citizenship

participation

Module 3:
Challenges

Module 2:
Institutions

Module 1:
Identity

Cultural and

historical

identity

Geography

Demography

Institutions
Rights and
national
soevereignity
Political
parties

Corruption
Accountability
Rule of law
Democracy
and
participatio
n

Health

Education

Security

Migration

Environment

How you will learn in
this class?

• We will combine different elements such

as:

• Presentations and lectures
• Videos y readings
• Interactions with experts worldwide

• Connecting content to what is relevant to

our community as well as to our cognitive
conflict.

• By addressing different challenges faced by

our country to promote civil engagement
and participation.

Stay tuned and read the news
everyday. Select reliable sources
mostly national and local

Key Activity

PrepApps

• Interdisciplinary project: Mexico

and Diseño de aplicaciones
class.

• Based on current challenges in

Mexico.

LEKILALTIK Project in Chiapas

• Work with a formative partner in

Chiapas to create and present a
solution or project for their
organization.

• In sitium visit during March 15 - 19

Important dates

Exam

Date

First Partial
Exam

February 10th

Second Partial
Exam

March 24th

Methodology

• Is important to be respectful towards your teachers and classmates.

Students must avoid calling names, cursing, or use any kind of verbal
and nonverbal language (English or Spanish) to offend someone
inside or outside the classroom.

• Since this is a class imparted in English, class participation, activities,

homework and projects, must be developed in this language.

• Punctuality is a very important value. Being late to class, meetings or

tutoring sessions is disrespectful for both students and teachers,
therefore anyone arriving after the roll has been called, will have an
absence.

•Tolerance 8:10 am

• We have to make our classroom a proper environment for learning

and sharing knowledge, therefore food or snacks are totally forbidden
during classtime since these could keep us distracted from our main
goal.

• Plagiarism or its attempt, is a very serious fault. Please consider that

all cases of this nature will be reported with a FIA in your student´s
file (Falta de Integridad Académica) and notified to the ORD
Department and the CIAC (Comité de Integridad Académica). Some
activities considered as plagiarism are: copy paste, not making
reference to a quoted author or bibliography, stealing someone's
material and/or ideas and contract cheating, among others.

• The class uses Canvas as an official means of communication

between the teacher and students to publish homework, activities,
instructions and any other information relevant for the class.
Therefore, it is the student's responsibility to check Canvas
platform every day.

•Homework is the formal way to practice in order to achieve
our learning goals. Therefore, it has to be handed in
respecting the format determined by the teacher, containing
the students´ information (name, ID number, group, title of the
homework and date) and with its
corresponding bibliography at the end using APA format. The
lack of bibliography will subtract 20% of the homework´s value
and the misuse of the APA format or the lack of identification
information implies a deduction of 10% each.

•Homework is ALL done prior to class

•Homework is only received on its due date and through the
requested platform or forum without exceptions. If you were
absent during the due date of a homework, activities, quizzes
or partial exams, your absence must be justified in order to
receive it or apply what was missed.

•Communication between the students and the teacher will be
held via e-mail. Remind is an unofficial way to speed up
communication but not a mandatory one. Please consider
office hours to establish contact: Monday to Friday between
8:00 am and 4:30 pm with a 24-hour response time on
laboring days only.

•Feedback sessions (revisión) will be programmed after Partial
and Final Evaluations, questions and doubts are solved during
these meetings and corrections are performed in case
needed. Missing a feedback session or revision is a missed
chance to request changes or inquire about the grade either
Partial or Final. Please notice its importance and attend to
them.

•Students must respect the class format protocols as well as
the given sanity protocols if applicable.

So, let´s see how much you remember from today´s class?

Any

question?