Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ECON 4307. PROJECT EVALUATION. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: ECON 3022 and ECON 3091.
Evaluation of public investment projects
emphasizing cost-benefit analysis and its
application.
ECON 4395. RESEARCH METHODS IN
ECONOMICS I. Three credit hours. Three hours
of lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON 3091
and ECON 3092 and (MATE 3102 or ESMA
3102).
Discussion of the research process in the study of
economic problems with emphasis on the scientific
method, research design, measurement concepts
and other analytical approaches.
ECON 4405. ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS. Three credit hours.
Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites:
ECON 3091 and ECON 3092 and (MATE 3102 or
ESMA 3102).
A study of the fundamental economic problems of
our time, such as production, employment, trade,
consumption, inflation, and others.
ECON 4425. SPECIAL TOPICS. One to three
credit hours. One to three hours of lecture or
seminar per week. Prerequisite: Authorization of
the Director of the Department.
Authors, topics, and trends in the field of
economics.
ECON 4995. SPECIAL PROBLEMS. One to
three credit hours. Three to nine hours of research
per week. Prerequisite: Authorization of the
Director of the Department.
Research under the supervision of a professor of the
Department.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
The Department of English provides various
courses of instruction for all students attending
the Mayagüez Campus.
With regards to the general requirement in
English, three separate 12 credit-hour sequences
exist within the Department of English.
A. The Basic Sequence: INGL 3101, 3102,
3201, 3202.
B. The Intermediate Sequence: INGL 3103,
3104 and six additional credit-hours in English
Department courses to be chosen from an
approved list of courses provided by the English
Department.
C. The Honors Sequence: Six credit-hours are
granted to students by means of Advanced
Placement. Students must then take INGL 3211
and 3212 to complete their requirement. Note
that although these two courses carry 3000-level
numbers, they are actually second year courses.
Note that students who start in one sequence may
not take courses in one of the other sequences to
satisfy the university's English requirement. For
example, students in the "Intermediate
Sequence" may not take either INGL 3201-3202
or INGL 3211-3212 to satisfy their second year
requirement.
Students who score below 570** on the ESLAT
(English as a Second Language Achievement
Test) will be placed in the basic sequence of
courses: INGL 3101, INGL 3102, INGL 3201,
INGL 3202.
The intermediate sequence of courses, starting
with INGL 3103 and INGL 3104, is for entering
students at UPR/Mayagüez who have scored
above 570** on the ESLAT (English as a
Second Language Achievement Test), but who
have either not taken the Advanced Level Test in
English or not qualified for advanced placement
in the Honors Program of the English
Department by obtaining a score of 4 or 5 on that
test. Since the placement of students with scores
of 3 on the Advanced Level Test is at the
discretion of the English Department, these
students will be placed in INGL 3103. Students
who successfully pass INGL 3103 and INGL
3104 must take six more credit-hours in English
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