School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM The Facultad de Filosofía y Letras ("School of Philosophy and Literature") or FFyL of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 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 Laureate Octavio Paz and a number of other important figures in Latin American literature. 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.
School of Sciences, UNAM four other buildings lodging the Faculty's respective departments and their faculty. The newer part of the complex consists of two buildings, one called "Amoxcalli", which holds the Faculty's library and the Computing Center. The newest one is called "Tlahuizcalpan" which hosts various labs and research premises, as well as classrooms. In recent years, an interdisciplinary extension of the Faculty was inaugurated in the port of Sisal, Yucatán, devoted to the research of coastal ecosystems and their species. The National Herbarium of Mexico at UNAM in Mexico City houses the largest collection of plant specimens in all of Latin America and