Undergraduate Catalogue - UPRM

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
CIPO 4065. INTERNATIONAL LAW. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: CIPO 3011.
Descriptive and systematic analysis from a juridical
point of view of the basic concepts, principles, and
problems of the relations between national political
units.
CIPO 4075. THE POLITICS OF THE
DEVELOPING AREAS. Three credit hours.
Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:
CIPO 3011.
Comparative analysis of the political systems of
selected world areas in which racial, social, and
political changes are actually taking place.
CIPO 4085. AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY.
Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture per
week. Prerequisite: CIPO 3025.
An outline of the modern policy of the United
States of America; how it is formulated; the
relationship between the American democratic
processes and the demands of a global foreign
policy; and the basic factors shaping it.
CIPO 4095. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
OF THE CARIBBEAN. Three credit hours. Three
hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: CIPO
3011.
Study and analysis of the government, political
processes and political groups in the Caribbean
area, including their relations with outside
countries.
CIPO 4105. LATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
AND POLITICS. Three credit hours. Three hours
of lecture per week. Prerequisite: CIPO 3011.
Latin American parties and politics; governmental
activities and problems, the structure of
government. Emphasis is placed on political
realities rather than on formal constitutional
provisions.
CIPO 4115. LATIN AMERICAN
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Three credit
hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: CIPO 3065 or CIPO 4105.
A survey of the evolution and present status of the
relations of the Latin American countries with one
another, and with Anglo-American and the rest of
the world.
CIPO 4125. COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY. Three
credit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisite: CIPO 4052.
A critical historical analysis of the Marxist
movement and ideology, including the social and
philosophical origins of Marxism; the major
economic and political theories of Marx and
Engels, the development of Marxism in Tzarist
Russia; the theoretical contributions of Lenin and
Trotsky, the rise of the Stalinist state, and the
interpretations of Tito, Mao Tse-Tung, Kruschev,
Castro and others.
CIPO 4127. GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD
POLITICS. Three credit hours. Three hours of
lecture per week.
The impact of globalization on contemporary world
politics. Topics include, among others: the crisis
of the capitalist state, the Great Depression,
imperialism, regional blocks, and the new
economic world order.
CIPO 4145. RESEARCH IN POLITICAL
SCIENCE. Three credit hours. Two hours of
lecture and at least four hours of research per week.
Prerequisite: 12 credit hours in Political Science.
Current methods of research in political sciences;
trends in methodology and research interests here
and abroad; bibliography of political science.
Individual work, oral and written reports.
CIPO 4155. ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL
SCIENCE. Three credit hours. Two hours of
lecture and at least four hours of research per week.
Prerequisite: 12 credit hours in Political Science.
The area of political science as a discipline; its
problems and methods; the nature of political
science; the state, its origin, scope, and relationship
to authority; the bases of political action,
leadership, groups public opinion, elections, parties
and pressure groups, governmental organizations,
liberty and authority. Oral reports and final
individual written project required.
CIPO 4236. 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.
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