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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Undergraduate Bulletin of Information 2001-2002BETSY MORALES CARO, Assistant Professor,Ph.D., 1999, University of Texas at Austin.BEVERLY H. NIEVES, Associate Professor, M.A.,1952, New York University.DARNYD W ORTIZ SEDA, Professor, Ph.D.,1990, Florida State University.MYRIAM D. PAGE, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,1990, University of Iowa.MARIA L. PIÑEIRO, Assistant Professor, M.A.,1979, Boston College.ELLEN PRATT RIOS, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,1999, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.SANDRA RIOS, Instructor, M.A.E.E., 1987,University of Puerto Rico.ISMAEL RIVERA RODRIGUEZ, AssociateProfessor, Ph.D., 1995, Pennsylvania State University.MYRNA RIVERA MONTIJO, Assistant Professor,M.A.E.E., 1995, University of Puerto Rico.LINDA RODRIGUEZ, Associate Professor, Ph.D.,1994, University of Michigan.ROBERT T. SHERWIN, Professor, Ph.D., 1975,The Pennsylvania State University.JOHN SLACK, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 1995,University of Miami.GEORGIA SMYRNIOU, Associate Professor,Ph.D., 1994, University of Illinois.BARBARA STRODT LOPEZ, Associate Professor,Ph.D., 1979, University of California at Los Angeles.NIDIA TIRU, Associate Professor, M.A., 1971, OhioState University.CHARMAINE WELLINGTON, AssistantProfessor, Ph.D., 1986, University of Illinois.COURSES OF INSTRUCTIONDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHUNDERGRADUATE COURSESENGL 0066. PRE-BASIC ENGLISH.Remedial Course without credit. Three hours oflecture per week.Intensive training in basic language for studentsrequiring remedial work in English.ENGL 3101-3102. BASIC COURSE INENGLISH. Three credit hours per semester.Three hours of lecture per week, supplementedby work in the language laboratory, eachsemester. Prerequisite: Placement byexamination or ENGL 0066.This course is designed to meet the student'simmediate needs, and to give him or her acommand of the fundamental structure of theEnglish language. The oral approach is used.Skills in reading and writing are developed.Students will be grouped according to theirability to use the language, and arrangementswill be made to give additional help to thosestudents who show poor preparation in English.ENGL 3103. INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH I.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisite: Placement by examination.Analysis of selected readings, such as essays,fiction, poetry or drama, and practice in writingcompositions with attention given as needed togrammar and idiomatic expressions.ENGL 3104. INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH II.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisite: ENGL 3103.Analysis of selected readings, such as essays,fiction, poetry or drama, and practice in writingcompositions with attention given as needed togrammar and idiomatic expressions.ENGL 3191. CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisite: ENGL 3202.Development of naturalness, correctness andclarity in conversational English; analysis andcorrection of individual faults in speech delivery;application of phonetics to problems ofpronunciation and articulation in NorthAmerican English.ENGL 3195. PROFESSIONALCONVERSATION. One credit hour. One hourof lecture and one one-hour laboratory per week.Prerequisite: ENGL 3212 or ENGL 3202 orConsent of the Director of the Department.An introductory communication course with133