A Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) is a registered nurse (RN) with advanced education and training. Their goal is to help people be as healthy as possible. Family Nurse Practitioners advocate for health promotion and disease prevention. These professionals teach people ways to stay healthy and treat them for acute illness (e.g. colds) and chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes). Family Nurse Practitioners perform health histories, physical assessment and examinations, order and interpret diagnostic/laboratory studies, diagnose and treat common illness and minor injuries, make referrals to specialists, counsel and teach health and nutrition, prescribe/manage medication therapy and provide continued/follow– up and coordinate care for patients at any stage of development throughout the lifespan.

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This program has been designed for the professional development of special education teachers. Candidates will acquire knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to assume leadership positions as teachers, supervisors, or consultants in the field of special education.

The program is designed to provide students with a thorough preparation in supply chain and materials management skills and expertise in consulting management from middle to senior level roles in the organizations, with a global and social perspective. The program also provides a comprehensive approach that integrates skills in project management and lean six-sigma problem solving techniques. It incorporates the use of tools, critical thinking, project management, research and information technology skills especially in specific areas of the profession in the role of consultant.

This program has been designed as a professional development alternative for Fine Arts teachers. Candidates can select one of four track options: Music, Dance, Visual Arts or Theater.

Graduates of the Master of Public Affairs with specialization in Human Services will be able to manage, design, plan and evaluate programs of services related to personal and social development of individuals, families and communities to improve the quality of life of society. In addition, they will develop leadership skills that will enable them to organize communities and thus become agents of social change. They will be able to participate effectively and efficiently in the processes of public policy formulation. They will know strategies for the search of funds, preparation and administration of proposals for the operationalization of objectives and programmatic.

The master's degree in Quality Management offers the skills to effectively manage the relationship between quality systems and the present and future development of organizations. The graduate of this master's degree may serve as an operations manager in manufacturing and service companies, specialist in statistical process control, consultant for the design and implementation of quality management models, consultant for the selection and evaluation of technologies, equipment and planning and control systems operations, evaluator of quality control systems, among others.

The program has the ultimate goal of increasing the number of qualified speech-language pathologists in the island. Graduates will be able to supply the high demand of services to the population with speech, language, articulation, voice, fluency, swallowing, and hearing problems in Puerto Rico and the Hispanic population, and minorities all over the United States.

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El egresado de la Maestría en Asuntos Públicos con especialidad en Ciencias Forenses será capaz de administrar, diseñar y coordinar proyectos de investigación criminal, de protección y análisis de evidencia recolectada y guardada en la escena del crimen, como también estará capacitado en procesos judiciales en las áreas de aspectos físicos de la evidencia, fotografía forense y dibujo de bocetos, análisis de documentos sospechosos, y el esclarecimiento de crímenes. 

The Master of Arts in Cultural Studies is a program that offers an interdisciplinary approach —with theoretical and critical emphasis— to the study of culture and society. It aims to offer tools to understand and analyze contemporary culture, which is characterized by its diversity, especially in the space of postcolonial and subaltern reality. The program is oriented towards the development of competences that allow carrying out academic research work. In addition, the graduate demonstrates the ability to interpret, discuss and explain contemporary culture.

Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques with the aim of meet the expectations of a project, achieving the benefit of increasing the efficiency of people, companies and countries, in a world of rapid change. The graduate of the master's degree in Project management will possess the skills to design, evaluate and apply projects, collecting the concepts and processes related to their management; likewise, it will show a critical and reflective attitude with the content presented.