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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. A comprehensive study of the visual arts in Puerto Rico, with emphasis on painting, architecture, sculpture, and graphic arts from precolonial times to present. Discussion will focus on the origins, influences, and projections of the Puerto Rican art movement within a historical and aesthetic context. PREREQ: PRS 213 or instructor's or Departmental permission.
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3 hours, 3 credits. A comparative study of the social, political, and economic processes affecting Latino groups in the United States. Discussion will focus on the variable adaptations made by Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Dominicans, Cubans, Colombians, and other Latinos in their migration and settlement within American society.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Intensive survey of the socioeconomic formations of Puerto Rico from the Industrial Revolution to the present. PREREQ: PRS 212.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The development of literature in Puerto Rico, from the chronicles and historical documents of the early colonial Spanish period to the Spanish-American War in 1898. Special attention to literary works that played a major role in defining a national identity. PREREQ: Instructor's or Departmental permission, advanced Spanish grammar, a good knowledge of oral Spanish, and reading and writing in Spanish.
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3 hours, 3 credits. A study of the major literary figures instrumental in the development of a national literature in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century. PREREQ: Either PRS 302 or Departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Intensive study of socioeconomic and political changes in twentieth-century Puerto Rico.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The impact of the United States on the economy of Puerto Rico, with emphasis on unemployment, prices, wage rates, industrialization, trade, commerce, and migration. Analysis of the consequences of the economic status of the island for the Puerto Rican people. PREREQ: PRS 212 and ECO 166.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The history of colonialism in Puerto Rico from the nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis on the independence, annexationist, and autonomist movements and their relation to analogous movements in the Caribbean. PREREQ: PRS 212.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Major and minor political parties in Puerto Rico: varieties of state and local systems, leadership patterns, structural characteristics, roles, functions, behavior of the electorate, and relations to U.S. political parties. PREREQ: PRS 212.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. History and development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States: migration, community establishment, institutions, regional patterns of settlement, and issues of class, race, ethnicity, and gender.
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