Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Geology Courses
GEOL 3026
Life in the Past 3
GEOL 3027
Geological Aspects of the
Environmental Sciences 3
GEOL 3035
Mineralogy 3
GEOL 3045
Planetary Geology 3
Mathematics Courses
MATE 3030
Introduction to Geometry 3
MATE 4009
Ordinary Differential
Equations 3
MATE 4071
Intro. to Mathematics of
Modern Science I 3
MATE 4120
History of Mathematics 3
Electives in Astronomy or Physics
ASTR 4006
Astronomy II 3
FISI 4001
Seminar I 1
FISI 4002
Seminar II 1
FISI 4017
Physical Optics 3
FISI 4046
Wave Mechanics 3
FISI 4051
Intermediate Mechanics 3
FISI 4052
Dynamics 3
FISI 4057
Thermal Physics 3
FISI 4068
Electromagnetism 3
FISI 4077
Intermediate Laboratory II 2
FISI 4116
Solid State Physics 3
FISI 4125
Computers in Physics 3
FISI 4997
Special Problems in Physics 1-3
FISI 4999
Undergraduate Research 1-3
METE 4006
Meteorology 3
METE 4007
Meteorological Measurements 1
METE 4008
Physical Meteorology 3
Note: The total number of required credits of
recommended electives (in Chemistry, Computer
Sciences, Geology, and Mathematics), and electives in
Astronomy or Physics are distributed as follows:
Chemistry 8
Computer Sciences 3
Geology 3
Astronomy or Physics 9
TOTAL 23
DEPARTMENTAL FACULTY
JOSE D. ALEMAR, Professor, Ph.D., 1977, Texas
A&M University.
DORIAL CASTELLANOS, Professor, Ph.D., 1991,
University of South Carolina.
MARK J.-L. CHANG, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
1998, University of Durham, England.
CARLOS CONDAT, Professor, Ph.D., 1982,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
FELIX E. FERNANDEZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1987,
University of Arizona.
JEFFREY F. FRIEDMAN, Professor, Ph.D., 1992,
Oklahoma University.
ANGEL A. GAUD, Professor, M.S., 1968,
University of Puerto Rico, Juris Doctor, 1980,
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico.
DONGDONG JIA, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2000,
Tsinghua University, Beijing.
WEIYI JIA, Professor, Ph.D., 1982, The Institute of
Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
HECTOR JIMENEZ-GONZALEZ, Associate
Professor, Ph.D., 1992, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
YONG-JIHM KIM, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
1989, Seoul National University.
HUIMIN LIU, Professor, Ph.D., 1986, Shanghai
Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Academia
Sinica, China.
ANGEL M. LOPEZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1977,
University of Massachusetts.
JOSE R. LOPEZ, Professor, Ph.D., 1983, Michigan
State University.
PABLO J. MARRERO-SOTO, Assistant Professor,
Ph.D., 2001, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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