School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM
The Facultad de Filosofía y Letras or FFyL of the National Autonomous University of Mexico administers eleven divisions of the humanities offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Department is one of the largest, and most renowned, literature faculties in the Spanish-speaking world; the Alma Mater of Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz and a number of other important figures in Latin American literature.
History
The direct ancestor of Department was the High Studies National School, founded in 1910 by Justo Sierra as an attempt to establish graduate level degrees and research. The School itself was created fourteen year later hosting four majors: Sciences, Philosophy, Literature, and Historic Sciences. The Department has always been one of the most dynamic schools at the university, adding additional majors along with separating Sciences programs into a new department.Organization
The School is run by the Dean, currently Jorge Enrique Linares Salgado, PhD., and is divided into eleven divisions offering undergraduate and graduate degrees:- History
- Classic Philology
- Pedagogy
- Latin American Studies
- Hispanic Philology
- Philosophy
- Geography
- Theater and Dramatic Literature
- Modern Literature
- Library Science
- Intercultural Development and Management