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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Undergraduate Bulletin of Information 2001-2002hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON3021 and ECON 3022.Economic problems of Latin America; criticalevaluation of the institutions and economicfactors that retard or foster their solution; the roleof the State in promoting economicdevelopment.ECON 4196. ECONOMICS OF INDUSTRIALORGANIZATION. Three credit hours. Threehours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON3021 and ECON 3022.Conduct, performance and use of price theory inthe determination of industrial structure.Economic aspects of market structure, mergersand innovations, models of economic behavior,and the role of advertising.ECON 4225. LABOR ECONOMICS. Threecredit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisites: ECON 3021 and ECON 3022.Theory of labor market behavior and itsapplications to public policy. Topics includelabor supply and demand, human capital theory,migration, unemployment, unions, anddiscrimination.ECON 4307. PROJECT EVALUATION. Threecredit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisites: ECON 3022 and ECON 3091.Evaluation of public investment projectsemphasizing cost-benefit analysis and itsapplication.ECON 4395. RESEARCH METHODS INECONOMICS. Three credit hours. Three hoursof lecture per week. Prerequisites: ECON 3091and ECON 3092 and (MATH 3102 or MSTA3102).Examination of the major economic problemsand methods of studying them; application ofstatistical techniques to the field of economics.Each student is required to prepare anindependent research project.ECON 4405. ANALYSIS OFCONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisites: ECON 3091 and ECON3092 and (MATH 3102 or MSTA 3102).A study of the fundamental economic problemsof our time, such as production, employment,trade, consumption, inflation, and others.ECON 4425. SPECIAL TOPICS. One to threecredit hours. One to three hours of lecture orseminar per week. Prerequisite: Consent of theDirector of the Department.Authors, topics, and trends in the field ofeconomics.ECON 4995. SPECIAL PROBLEMS. One tothree credit hours. Three to nine hours ofresearch per week. Prerequisite: Consent of theDirector of the Department.Research under the supervision of a professor ofthe Department.DEPARTMENT OFENGLISHThe Department of English provides variouscourses of instruction for all students attendingthe Mayagüez Campus.With regards to the general requirement inEnglish, three separate 12 credit-hour sequencesexist within the Department of English.A. The Basic Sequence: ENGL 3101, 3102,3201, 3202;B. The Intermediate Sequence: ENGL 3103,3104 and six additional credit-hours in EnglishDepartment courses to be chosen from anapproved list of courses provided by the EnglishDepartment;C. The Honors Sequence: Six credit-hours aregranted to students by means of AdvancedPlacement. Students must then take ENGL 3211and 3212 to complete their requirement. Notethat although these two courses carry 3000-levelnumbers, they are actually second year courses.Note that students who start in one sequence maynot take courses in one of the other sequences tosatisfy the university's English requirement. Forexample, students in the "IntermediateSequence" may not take either ENGL 3201-3202129