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UNAM THE NATION’S THE NATION’S UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO UNAM 9 786073 001748 NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO Dr. Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers Rector Dr. Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas General Secretary Ing. Leopoldo Silva Gutiérrez Administrative Secretary Dr. Alberto Ken Oyama Nakagawa Institutional Development Secretary Mtro. Javier de la Fuente Hernández Community Outreach Secretary Dr. Mónica González Contró Legal Director Néstor Martínez Cristo Public Relations Director Dr. Domingo Alberto Vital Díaz Humanities Director Dr. William Henry Lee Alardín Scientific Research Director Dr. Jorge Volpi Escalante Cultural Promotion Director Joaquín Díez-Canedo Flores Director of Publication and Editorial Promotion THE NATION’S UNAM UNIVERSITY Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM. Español] UNAM : the nation´s university / coordinator Francisco José Trigo Tavera ; introduction Enrique Graue Wiechers. – First edition 336 páginas ISBN 978-607-30-0174-8 1. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. I. Trigo Tavera, Francisco J., editor. II. Graue Wiechers, Enrique, prologuista. III. Título. LE7.M62.U34413 2018 LIBRUNAM 1981091 Translation Joshua Neuhouser First edition: February 16, 2018 D.R. © 2018 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO Ciudad Universitaria Delegación Coyoacán, 04510 Mexico City ISBN: 978-607-30-0174-8 Reproduction in whole in part by any means without the prior written authorization of the rights holders is strictly prohibited. This edition and its contents are the property of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Printed in Mexico. THE NATION’S UNAM UNIVERSITY COORDINATOR Francisco José Trigo Tavera NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO CONTENTS 11 INTRODUCTION 39 TEACHING 42 ACADEMIC OFFERINGS 42 PREPARATORY SCHOOLS 15 HISTORY 46 UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION 90 POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION 92 DISTANCE LEARNING 93 CONTINUING EDUCATION 21 FUNCTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY 94 COMMUNITY SERVICES 22 TEACHING 24 RESEARCH 97 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 25 NATIONAL SYSTEM OF RESEARCHERS 26 CULTURAL PROMOTION 100 THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SUBSYSTEM 102 NATIONAL SERVICES AND OTHER SERVICES 29 CHARACTERISTICS 102 PUBLICATIONS 103 ACADEMICS 30 GOVERNING STRUCTURE 104 INSTITUTES AND CENTERS 32 PUBLIC 148 EXPERIMENTAL CAPACITY 34 AUTONOMOUS 150 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF UNAM LABORATORIES 36 NATIONAL 161 UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS 164 THE SCIENCE POPULARIZATION DEPARTMENT 164 MUSEUMS José Chávez Morado, The Conquest of Energy. 169 HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL 241 SEMINARS SCIENCES RESEARCH 170 THE HUMANITIES SUBSYSTEM 170 INSTITUTES 186 CENTERS 251 HISTORIC BUILDINGS 194 UNITS 196 PROGRAMAS UNIVERSITARIOS 200 NATIONAL SERVICES 202 MUSEUMS 265 THE UNAM’S PRESENCE 208 OUTREACH HOUSES 266 ACROSS THE COUNTRY 268 IN THE WORLD 211 CULTURE 268 ACADEMIC COOPERATION AND EXCHANGE 212 THE UNAM IN CULTURAL 272 OUTREACH AND INNOVATION PROMOTION 272 STUDENT MOBILITY 216 VISUAL ARTS AND PARTICIPATION IN 218 FILM INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS 222 DANCE 224 LITERATURE 226 MUSIC 287 THE UNAM WE WANT 228 PUBLICATIONS 230 THEATER 232 NETWORK OF ARTISTIC LABORATORIES 291 STATISTICS 234 MEDIA 236 CULTUREUNAM COMMUNITY PROGRAM 236 CULTURAL DOWNLOAD 238 GREAT TEACHERS UNAM 325 ONLINE DIRECTORY 238 EXTRAORDINARY CHAIRS INTRODUCTION WITH THIS INTRODUCTION, we invite the reader to explore the National Autonomous University of Mexico as it exists in 2017. The pages of this book describe the university’s primary day-to-day activities. What follows is, necessarily, a present-day account of the university, which has seen 466 years of continual academic efforts since its founding in 1551 as the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico and a nearly three-century evolutionary process that led to its refounding as the National Autonomous University of Mex- ico at the beginning of the last century. Ever since, it has played a transformative role within the nation, serving as a cornerstone for the construction of our con- temporary society. Its classrooms and hallways have seen the passage of renowned academics, scientists, and thinkers who have helped forge our history through their respective disciplines. All three Mexican Nobel Laureates are former UNAM students: Alfon- so García Robles (Nobel Peace Prize, 1982), Octavio Paz (Nobel Prize in Liter- ature, 1990), and Mario Molina (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995). But the list of professors and alumni who have changed the history of science, the arts, and the humanities—in our country and around the world—is too long to be listed here. The National Autonomous University of Mexico is more than just the country’s oldest and most prestigious university. In accordance with its origins, the UNAM has a deep commitment to public, secular, and autonomous education. Those of us who are part of this institution can feel Mexico within us: we dream of an egalitarian, prosperous country, with the freedom to agree or disagree on how to make it better and more just. Without wanting to sound superior, the members of this community feel special. Indeed, belonging to the UNAM is a sign of commitment to Mexico—to the Mexico that those of us affiliated with the nation’s university dream of and imagine. The National Autonomous University of Mexico currently has 15 faculties, five multidisciplinary units, five national schools, 14 preparatory school campus- es, 33 institutes, 15 research centers, and 120 undergraduate programs, as well as over 40,000 academics, nearly 350,000 students, and a presence in seven countries. 12 Thanks to our ever-changing study plans, the creation of new programs, and the development of innovative scientific and humanistic research programs, the UNAM is able to evolve and adapt to the challenges that face it. This book is a testimony to the presence and the scope of the National Auton- omous University of Mexico. Its pages reflect our commitment to Mexican society, our formation of free and responsible human capital, our challenges, and our achievements, which we periodically make public in publications like this one. Dr. Enrique Graue Wiechers Rector, National Autonomous University of Mexico 13 HISTORY 16 UNAM . THE NATION ’ S UNIVERSITY THE PREDECESSOR OF THE NATIONAL Autonomous University of Mexico was the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, founded by royal decree in 1551. It had five faculties: Theology, Canon Law, Roman Law, Medicine, and Art, as well as several chairs. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the university was closed and reopened on several occasions due to periods of external upheaval, such as the War of Independence (which pitted liberals against conservatives), foreign invasions, and the rise of independent Mexico. The university began to resemble the UNAM we know today in September 1910, when the country’s secondary and higher education system was reorganized and the National University of Mexico founded, bringing together the “national schools” founded over the course of the nineteenth century: the National Prepa- ratory School, the National School of Jurisprudence, the National School of Medicine, the National School of Engineers, the National School of Fine Arts, and the School of Higher Studies, created in April of that year. STONE PLAQUE placed on September 22, Mexico, which utilizes the image of the 1919 on the façade of the building that eagle and the serpent and the motto housed the Royal and Pontifical University Patriae scientiae que amor salus populi of Mexico. The plaque shows the first est (“Patriotism and Love of Knowledge shield of the National University of Are the Wealth of the People”). HISTORY 17 18 UNAM . THE NATION ’ S UNIVERSITY In July 1929, the university was granted autonomy by the federal government and became the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Years later, in 1945, its current charter was issued. Its first article states: The National Autonomous University of Mexico is a public corporation and a decentralized state agency with full legal powers whose purpose is to provide higher education for professionals, researchers, university professors, and technicians of use to society; to organize and undertake research, primarily that relevant to the nation’s conditions and challenges; and to extend the benefits of culture as far as possible. Over the course of the twentieth century, and in accordance with its three basic functions of teaching, research, and cultural promotion, the UNAM has contrib- uted to the formation of Mexico’s constitutive institutions. Its classrooms host an academic community that has nurtured the country with great thinkers, professionals, artists, and social leaders. THE CENTRAL LIBRARY is one of the Tower. This part of the university campus university’s most emblematic buildings. was declared a UNESCO World Heritage In this photograph, we can appreciate the Site in 2007. grassy plaza that surrounds the Rectory FUNCTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY 22 UNAM . THE NATION ’ S UNIVERSITY TEACHING SINCE THE UNIVERSITY’S INCEPTION, teaching has been a central part of the UNAM’S day-to-day activities. The university has made extraordinary contribu- tions to this field. There were 349,539 matriculating students in the 2016-’17 school year, including 30,363 graduate students, 205,648 undergraduate students, and 113,528 preparatory students. The academic staff encompasses 40,184 people, 12,292 of whom are full-time professors. The university’s teaching and research activities are carried out at 15 faculties, five multidisciplinary units, five national schools, 12 preparatory school campus- es (nine as part

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