Courses in Puerto Rican Studies
*PRS 211: History of Puerto Rico I. 3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of the history of Puerto Rico from the pre-Columbian era to the mid-18th-century. The course focuses on archeology and ethnohistory of tribal society, the Taino chiefdoms, Spanish conquest and colonizations, European expansion, and the social, economic and political development of the colony to 1760.
PRS 212: History of Puerto Rico II. 3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of the history of Puerto Rico from the mid-18th-century to the present.
PRS 213: Puerto Rican Culture. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of the historical evolution of the Puerto Rican culture as compared with other Caribbean cultures. Introduction to the concepts, methods and theories of culture studies.
PRS 214 (LAC 169) Literature of the Caribbean. 3 hours, 3 credits. A comparative survey of the Caribbean of common themes, structures, and approaches to literary texts. Examples are chosen from works in Spanish, French, English, and Papiamento, read in translation if necessary.
PRS 220: Puerto Rican Literature in Translation. 3 hours, 3 credits. A survey of Puerto Rican literature in translation with emphasis on the late 19th and 20th centuries. PREREQ.: COR 100.
PRS 221: Puerto Rican and Latino Literature in the United States. 3 hours, 3 credits. Focuses on the literature primarily in English developed by Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Cubans, Dominicans, and other Latino groups in the United States. Emphasis on the similarities in the development of themes, structures, and genres, and relationships with mainstream American literature. PREREQ.: COR 100.
PRS 233: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Puerto Rico. 3 hours, 3 credits. The history of colonialism in Puerto Rico from the 19th-century to the present. Emphasis on the independence, annexationist, and autonomist movements and their relation to analogous movements in the Caribbean. PREREQ.: PRS 212.
PRS 236: Puerto Rican Music. 3 hours, 3 credits. A survey of folk, popular, and classical musical forms in Puerto Rican culture, and the study of the main composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. PREREQ.: PRS 213 and instructor's or departmental permission and knowledge of Spanish.
PRS (LAC) 237: The Visual Arts in Puerto Rico. 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.
PRS 241: Migration and the Puerto Rican Community in the United States. 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.
PRS 242 (LAC 231): Latinos in the United States. 3 hours, 3 credits.
PRS 300: Social and Economic History of Puerto Rico: From the Industrial Revolution to the Present. 3 hours, 3 credits. Intensive survey of the socioeconomic formations of Puerto Rico from the Industrial Revolution to the present. PREREQ.: PRS 211-212.
PRS (LAC) 302: Puerto Rican Literature I: From the 16th-Century to 1898 (in Spanish). 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.
PRS (LAC) 303: Puerto Rican Literature II: From 1898 to the Present (in Spanish). 3 hours, 3 credits. A study of the major literary figures instrumental in the development of a national literature in Puerto Rico during the 20th-century. PREREQ.: Either PRS 302 or departmental permission.
PRS 307: Puerto Rico in the 20th-Century: 1898-Present. 3 hours, 3 credits. Intensive study of socioeconomic and political changes in 20th-century Puerto Rico. PREREQ.: PRS 211.
PRS 308: The Economy of Puerto Rico. 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 211 and 212 and ECO 168.
PRS 310: Political Parties in Puerto Rico, 1869 to the Present. 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 the U.S. political parties. PREREQ.: PRS 211-212.
*PRS 350: Puerto Rican Studies Research Seminar. 3 hours, 3 credits.
PRS (LAC) 360: Variable Topics in Puerto Rican Studies. 3 hours, 3 credits. Various topics in Puerto Rican studies. PREREQ.: PRS 211-212 and/or 213.
PRS 401: Puerto Rican Literature: Genre Studies (in Spanish). 3 hours, 3 credits. (May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits provided the genre under study is different.) The analysis of one genre (short story, novel, poetry, essay, or drama), each semester chosen in advance by the department or instructor. PREREQ.: PRS 302 and 303, 6 additional PRS credits, and reading and writing knowledge of Spanish.
PRS 404: Urban Reality in Puerto Rican Prose: From World War II to the Present (in Spanish). 3 hours, 3 credits. A study of industrialization, urbanization, and migration as presented in contemporary Puerto Rican fiction, essays, and the press. PREREQ.: PRS 302 or 303.
PRS 410: Puerto Rican Folklore and Popular Culture. 3 hours, 3 credits. Study of folklore and popular culture in Puerto Rico and of Puerto Ricans in the United States from the perspective of the social sciences. Analysis of the processes and product in the continual making of identity. PREREQ.: PRS 213 and good knowledge of oral and written Spanish.
PRS 430: Puerto Rican Historiography. 3 hours, 3 credits. A study of selected leading Puerto Rican historians and their writings as a basis for understanding the development of the historical thought and the nature of historical problems in the field of Puerto Rican Studies. Attention will be given to conflicting interpretations of significant events, and case studies will be made of such writings in Puerto Rican history. PREREQ.: Six credits in Puerto Rican history. RECOMMENDED: HIS 310.
PRS (LAC) 490: Directed Independent Study. 3 hours, 3 credits. (May be taken more than once, with departmental approval, if subject matter is different.) Directed independent study affords an opportunity for the student who wishes to undertake a well-defined research project. While the student conducts work under the guidance of a faculty member chosen by the student, the project is carried out in an independent manner, without regular class meetings. PREREQ.: A reading knowledge of Spanish.
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Elective Courses in Puerto Rican Studies
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANT 317: Early Civilization of South America and the Caribbean
ANT 328: Language and Culture
ANT 337: Inequality and Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANT 334: Mind and Culture
ANT 338: Culture, Religion, and Mythology
ANT 339: Anthropology of Complex Cultures
ANT 360: Man and the Environment
ART
ARH 137: Introduction to the History of Non-Western Art
ARH 343: Pre-Columbian Art
BLACK STUDIES
BLS 166: Introduction to Black Studies
BLS 178: Introduction to the Urban Community
BLS 177: Afro Caribbean Heritage
BLS 235: Afro-Caribbean Societies
BLS 241: Afro-Caribbean Literature
BLS 268: The Economics of Poverty
BLS 305: African Conceptual Systems
BLS 335: The Afro-Caribbean in World Politics
BLS 400: Seminar: Slavery in the New World
EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
BBE 171: Introduction to Bilingual/Bicultural Education
BBE 301: Psychological Foundations of Bicultural Education
ECONOMICS AND ACCOUNTING
ECO 323: Economic Development in Latin America
ECO 324: International Economics
ECO 326: Labor Economics
ENGLISH
ENG 229: Contemporary Urban Writers
ENG 234: Women in Literature
ENG 260: American Minority Literature
GEOGRAPHY
GEH 166: Geography of Development
GEH 189: Regional Geography of Selected Areas (Latin America)
HEALTH SERVICES
HEA 135: Contemporary Health Problems
HISTORY
HIS 174: Modern American History
HIU 335: Immigration in America
HIU 347: The Mainland Borough: the Bronx as a City in History
HIW 330: Colonial Hispanic Americas
HIW 331: reform and Revolution: Latin America in the Twentieth-Century
HIW 338: Mexico and the Caribbean
HIW 340: Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES
Any LAC course except 266 or 267
MUSIC
MSH 114: Introduction to Music
PHILOSOPHY
PHI 172: Contemporary Moral Issues
PHI 235: Political Philosophy
PHI 236: Social Philosophy
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POL 165: The American Political System
POL 240: Comparative Politics
POL 305: Public Administration
POL 313: New York City Politics
POL 315: Politics of American Poverty
POL 324: Sociology of Politics
Pol 326: Political Socialization
POL 332: Political Systems in Latin America
POL 323: Marxism: theory,Practice and International Implications
POL 336: Political Systems of Central America and the Caribbean
POL 338: Nationalism and Challenges to National Unity
POL 339: Violence and Revolution within Modern States
PSYCHOLOGY
PSY 330: Social Psychology
PSY 336: The Psychology of Ethnicity
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
SPA 306: Advanced Grammar
SPA 307: Translation
SPA 309: Advanced Grammar
SPA 320: Development of Literary Forms in Spanish America
SPA 321: Spanish Drama, Poetry, and Essays of the 18th & 19th centuries
SPA 322: Spanish Novel of the Nineteenth-Century
SPA 332: Latin American Fiction of the 20th-Century
SPA 343: Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
SPA 359: Latin American Civilization
SECONDARY, ADULT, AND BUSINESS EDUCATION
ESC 300: Human Relations
ESC 304: Theories of Prejudice and Stereotyping
ESC 309: Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Cultural Perspectives on Education
ESC 310: The Spanish Speaking American in the Urban School Setting
ESC 407: Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
SOCIOLOGY
SOC 227: Sociology of the Family
SOC 228: Women in Society
SOC 231: Social Problems
SOC 234: Urban Sociology
SOC 238: Race and Ethnicity in Society
SOC 245: Sociology of Third World Nations
SOC 250: Racial and Ethnic Communities in the United States
SOC 319: Population Problems
WOMEN'S STUDIES
WST 135: Introduction to Women's Studies (no longer offered).
WST 210: Women in Latin America
WST 250: Topics in Women and Society
WST 255: Topics in Women and Religion
WST 320: Puerto Rican Family
WST 237: Sociology of the Family
WST 234: Women in Literature
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