24 monthsProgramme duration
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Programme overview
Main Subject
English Language and Literature
Degree
Other
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The Master's Program in Literacy Studies (MEL) emerged organically from the sustained work of an interdisciplinary team from various institutions through the Transdisciplinary Institute for Literacy (ITRALI) at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG). This collaborative work among different academic bodies related to the social sciences, humanities, arts, and health at UdeG, as well as researchers from the University of Veracruz, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Georgia, among others, resulted in an epistemological positioning for the MEL that contributes to the recovery of the plurality of historical and situated social practices that are not limited to a cognitive or linguistic process.
The previous dialogue exercises made it possible to identify common local, national and global problems, for which it was concluded that the best way to understand and address them is through education with a focus on literacy.
Therefore, literacy is conceived as a form of educational innovation that involves expanding awareness of the relationship between text, thought, language, and reading and writing within the educational process to improve cognition, allowing the student to appropriate their cultural heritage and play an active role in society.
In this way, the MEL proposes, through the creation of communities of academics, students and graduates of the postgraduate program, and collaboration with actors from different institutions, sectors and latitudes, to carry out relevant and urgent actions to promote in turn in their communities of work and coexistence, tools for the understanding of their historical-social context and therefore, to be leaders that promote the development of social justice and peace.
This makes it possible to study and analyze reading and writing processes in everyday life. In addition to studying and intervening in literacy processes, it also involves other practices that allow people, to paraphrase Freire, to read the world from a creative and critical perspective.
It is in this challenging and hopeful spirit that the MEL addresses education professionals (teachers, managers, directors), since at the level of intervention in the reality and development of the country, the teachers who are in a classroom are the ones who have a direct impact on education, but the MEL also addresses community, cultural or social leaders and managers.
In short, this postgraduate program aims to contribute to the shift towards literacy-based education. That is, a social practice that recognizes the diversity of reading and writing practices, or literacy practices, across a variety of contexts and realities.
The previous dialogue exercises made it possible to identify common local, national and global problems, for which it was concluded that the best way to understand and address them is through education with a focus on literacy.
Therefore, literacy is conceived as a form of educational innovation that involves expanding awareness of the relationship between text, thought, language, and reading and writing within the educational process to improve cognition, allowing the student to appropriate their cultural heritage and play an active role in society.
In this way, the MEL proposes, through the creation of communities of academics, students and graduates of the postgraduate program, and collaboration with actors from different institutions, sectors and latitudes, to carry out relevant and urgent actions to promote in turn in their communities of work and coexistence, tools for the understanding of their historical-social context and therefore, to be leaders that promote the development of social justice and peace.
This makes it possible to study and analyze reading and writing processes in everyday life. In addition to studying and intervening in literacy processes, it also involves other practices that allow people, to paraphrase Freire, to read the world from a creative and critical perspective.
It is in this challenging and hopeful spirit that the MEL addresses education professionals (teachers, managers, directors), since at the level of intervention in the reality and development of the country, the teachers who are in a classroom are the ones who have a direct impact on education, but the MEL also addresses community, cultural or social leaders and managers.
In short, this postgraduate program aims to contribute to the shift towards literacy-based education. That is, a social practice that recognizes the diversity of reading and writing practices, or literacy practices, across a variety of contexts and realities.
Programme overview
Main Subject
English Language and Literature
Degree
Other
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The Master's Program in Literacy Studies (MEL) emerged organically from the sustained work of an interdisciplinary team from various institutions through the Transdisciplinary Institute for Literacy (ITRALI) at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG). This collaborative work among different academic bodies related to the social sciences, humanities, arts, and health at UdeG, as well as researchers from the University of Veracruz, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Georgia, among others, resulted in an epistemological positioning for the MEL that contributes to the recovery of the plurality of historical and situated social practices that are not limited to a cognitive or linguistic process.
The previous dialogue exercises made it possible to identify common local, national and global problems, for which it was concluded that the best way to understand and address them is through education with a focus on literacy.
Therefore, literacy is conceived as a form of educational innovation that involves expanding awareness of the relationship between text, thought, language, and reading and writing within the educational process to improve cognition, allowing the student to appropriate their cultural heritage and play an active role in society.
In this way, the MEL proposes, through the creation of communities of academics, students and graduates of the postgraduate program, and collaboration with actors from different institutions, sectors and latitudes, to carry out relevant and urgent actions to promote in turn in their communities of work and coexistence, tools for the understanding of their historical-social context and therefore, to be leaders that promote the development of social justice and peace.
This makes it possible to study and analyze reading and writing processes in everyday life. In addition to studying and intervening in literacy processes, it also involves other practices that allow people, to paraphrase Freire, to read the world from a creative and critical perspective.
It is in this challenging and hopeful spirit that the MEL addresses education professionals (teachers, managers, directors), since at the level of intervention in the reality and development of the country, the teachers who are in a classroom are the ones who have a direct impact on education, but the MEL also addresses community, cultural or social leaders and managers.
In short, this postgraduate program aims to contribute to the shift towards literacy-based education. That is, a social practice that recognizes the diversity of reading and writing practices, or literacy practices, across a variety of contexts and realities.
The previous dialogue exercises made it possible to identify common local, national and global problems, for which it was concluded that the best way to understand and address them is through education with a focus on literacy.
Therefore, literacy is conceived as a form of educational innovation that involves expanding awareness of the relationship between text, thought, language, and reading and writing within the educational process to improve cognition, allowing the student to appropriate their cultural heritage and play an active role in society.
In this way, the MEL proposes, through the creation of communities of academics, students and graduates of the postgraduate program, and collaboration with actors from different institutions, sectors and latitudes, to carry out relevant and urgent actions to promote in turn in their communities of work and coexistence, tools for the understanding of their historical-social context and therefore, to be leaders that promote the development of social justice and peace.
This makes it possible to study and analyze reading and writing processes in everyday life. In addition to studying and intervening in literacy processes, it also involves other practices that allow people, to paraphrase Freire, to read the world from a creative and critical perspective.
It is in this challenging and hopeful spirit that the MEL addresses education professionals (teachers, managers, directors), since at the level of intervention in the reality and development of the country, the teachers who are in a classroom are the ones who have a direct impact on education, but the MEL also addresses community, cultural or social leaders and managers.
In short, this postgraduate program aims to contribute to the shift towards literacy-based education. That is, a social practice that recognizes the diversity of reading and writing practices, or literacy practices, across a variety of contexts and realities.
Admission Requirements
These are those established in the current university regulations applicable to postgraduate studies, as well as the following:
- Bachelor's degree certificate or graduation certificate and proof of completion of social service.
- Bachelor's degree certificate with an average grade higher than 80 (eighty) or its equivalent.
- Demonstrate a minimum level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), preferably in English or its equivalent.
- To administer a diagnostic exam of learning skills, the Academic Board may determine the instrument(s) for this purpose.
- Pass the preparatory course.
- Submit a letter of intent to pursue the master's degree, indicating your reasons for studying it, your commitment to completing it, maintaining a minimum average of 80, and completing a virtual or in-person stay at another National or International University.
- Interview with at least one member of the Academic Board.
- Approve the other requirements published in the respective call for applications.
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