Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
HIST 4165. HISTORY OF BRAZIL. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
A historical survey of Brazil through the colonial
and national periods, with special attention to
economic, social and political development,
cultural conflicts, and foreign relations.
HIST 4171. HISTORY OF RUSSIA. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Study of Russian history from its origins to the
reign of Peter the Great.
HIST 4172. HISTORY OF RUSSIA. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Study of Imperial Russia with emphasis on the
controversy of slavophiles and westernizers and the
revolutionary movement of the nineteenth century.
HIST 4220. HISTORY OF GERMANY SINCE
1871. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture
per week.
History of Germany emphasizing the period from
its unification in 1871 to the present.
HIST 4221-4222. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND
APPROACHES TO HISTORY. Three credit hours
per semester. Three hours of lecture per week each
semester. Prerequisite: HIST 3202.
A study of the methods and techniques of historical
research; a survey of the development of History as
a discipline; and an analysis of the theories,
approaches and contributions of the most noted
modern historians.
HIST 4226. HISTORICAL RESEARCH. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: Twelve credit hours in History and
authorization of the Director of the Department.
A study of the methods in historical research and of
the most important historical currents, with the
purpose of preparing the student to make intensive
studies in his major field.
HIST 4228. THEMES IN HISTORY. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: HIST 4226.
Lectures and directed readings on selected topics.
HIST 4235. REVOLUTIONS IN TWENTIETH
CENTURY LATIN AMERICA. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Comparative historical analysis of the origins and
development of Latin American revolutions in the
20th Century, with emphasis on the nature and
direction of social change attendant to revolutions
in Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba and Chile.
HIST 4345. TWENTIETH CENTURY PUERTO
RICAN HISTORY. Three credit hours. Three
hours of lecture per week.
The historical development of Puerto Rico in the
twentieth century: constitutional history, political
movements, economic development, and sociocultural
changes.
POLITICAL SCIENCES
CIPO 3011. PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL
SCIENCE. Three credits hours. Three lectures per
week.
Concept of politics, ideological assumptions, basic
problems of politics, general types of national and
international political organization.
CIPO 3025. GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA. Three credit hours.
Three hours of lecture per week.
Development of political institutions in the United
States of America; a survey of the structure and
processes of these institutions.
CIPO 3035. GOVERNMENT OF PUERTO
RICO. Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture
per week.
Historical and analytical survey of the Government
of Puerto Rico from 1898 to the present;
governmental institutions developed during United
States rule, 1898-1952; the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the political
process in Puerto Rico; the Legislature, the
Executive, the Judiciary, local governments, and
relations between Puerto Rico and the United States
of America.
CIPO 3045. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
AND ADMINISTRATION. Three credit hours.
Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:
CIPO 3011.
A study and analysis of the functional as well as the
constitutional bases of international organization
and administration, with emphasis on the dynamics
and functions of the United Nations.
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