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Understand the theoretical and methodological foundations of discourse analysis from a critical and multidisciplinary perspective. Identify and analyze the discourses circulating in the social sphere, taking into account their historical, cultural, and political contexts. Develop skills to critically interpret social discourses, recognizing relations of power, ideology, and representation. Recognize the rhetorical dimension of various social discourses. Apply discourse analysis tools to different types of texts and communicative practices, including oral, written, visual, and digital forms. Foster a critical and reflective attitude toward social discourses.

This course is based on the premise that reality is constituted through interaction with the subject; it is shaped by social practices which, in turn, are embedded within sociohistorically determined frameworks. In this process, language plays a central role, as it not only reflects reality but also produces, delimits, and renders it intelligible. Through language, categories are established, meanings are fixed, and forms of experience are organized. However, this interaction between reality and social agents does not imply an unrestricted control of the latter over the real. Mediation is structurally conditioned by the nature of the subject itself, language, and inherited knowledge, whose configurations delimit the horizon of the possible. Nevertheless, these limits are neither natural nor immutable; rather, they are historical and contingent, and therefore susceptible to transformation. 1. Reality as Construction 2. Language as a Social Construct 3. Language as a Constructor of Reality/Realities 4. Social Actors and Discursive Positions 5. Hegemony, Ideology, and Discursive Order 6. The Weight of Tradition: The Rhetorical Dimension of Social Discourses 7. Discourse and Social Change

Discussion of key texts related to the course content. Lectures by the instructor on general topics and assigned readings, followed by group discussions with students to assess comprehension. Presentation of everyday problems or situations in which students can apply the knowledge acquired. Students will also participate in the selection and preparation of these problems.