====== Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (Area Studies) ======

| [[#date_of_bor_approval|Date of BOR Approval]] |
| [[#program_learning_outcomes|Program Learning Outcomes]] |
| [[#admission_requirements|Admission Requirements]] |
| [[#graduation_requirements|Graduation Requirements]] |
| [[#curriculum_checklist|Curriculum Checklist]] |
| [[#individual_course_titles_and_descriptions_with_credit_units,_pre-requisites_and/or_co-requisites|Individual Course Titles and Descriptions with Credit Units, Pre-requisites, and/or Co-requisites]] |

The BA Social Sciences (Area Studies) Program is an inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary program that studies specific geographical, historical, and cultural areas, in particular, the Philippines and Asia, utilizing the different social science disciplines of history, political science, economics, geography, anthropology, and sociology\\
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The program prepares the students for careers in teaching, research, policy-making, advocacy work, and employment in government institutions, non-government organizations, and in the civil society sector and private sector. It is also a very good preparation for law school and graduate studies in any field of the social sciences. With its extensive social science preparation and a basic knowledge of an Asian language, the degree also serves as an excellent preparation for a career in diplomatic/foreign service or in a multi-cultural/international work environment.\\
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==== Date of BOR Approval (Institution) ====
July 13, 1983 (implemented First Semester, AY 1984-1985)\\
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==== Program Learning Outcomes ====
PLO 1: Demonstrate proficiency in Filipino, Asian, and some Western history and heritage by conducting comparative studies.\\
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PLO 2: Apply multi-disciplinal and multi-cultural approaches in conducting research on social issues (e.g. as researchers, as urban planners, as Asian specialists, as International Studies and Foreign Service experts, as academicians, as Juris Doctors, or as medical doctors, among others).\\
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PLO 3: Utilize Social Science disciplines in the analysis of Philippine issues in an Asian and global context in the practice of their profession. \\
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PLO 4: Communicate effectively multi-disciplinal and analytical study outputs to relevant stakeholders especially to the non-academic audiences in ways that ensure real-world impact. \\
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PLO 5: Exhibit ethical and social sense of responsibility as Filipino citizens having a holistic and dynamic view as inculcated in the Area Studies approach. \\
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PLO 6: Attain Filipino national identity and civic consciousness, as Area Specialists, in relation to other nations through studies on various aspects of Asia.\\
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==== Admission Requirements ====
  * Complete UPCAT application (with Form 1 & Form 2B)
  * Take UPCAT exam
  * Upload high school records and supporting documents
  * Get your UPG score and wait for offers
  * Prepare for possible interview/essay (if required by CAS)
  * Accept offer and complete health requirements
=== Graduation Requirements ===
  * Students must file a formal application as candidates for graduation with the office of the Dean of their respective colleges. They shall be recommended for graduation by the faculty of their respective colleges after having satisfied all academic and other requirements prescribed for graduation. 
  * During the first three (3) weeks after the opening of classes in each semester, each Dean or the duly authorized representative, shall submit to the University Registrar a list of candidates for graduation at the next commencement. The University Registrar, in consultation with the chairs of divisions or departments concerned, shall then inquire into the academic records of the candidates to ascertain whether any candidate in such a list has any deficiency to make up and whether s/he has fulfilled all other requirements to be a candidate for graduation. If there is any question regarding a candidate, her/his name should not be deleted from the list of candidates for graduation, but a footnote to that effect should be made. Ten (10) weeks before the end of a semester, the University Registrar shall publish a complete list of duly qualified candidates for graduation for that semester (Revised UP Code: Art. 406 as amended at 790th BOR Meeting: 19 Dec 1969 and 861st BOR Meeting: 29 May 1975). 
  * All candidates for graduation must have their deficiencies settled and their records cleared not later than five (5) weeks before the end of their last semester, with the exception of those in academic subjects and work in Physical Education and NSTP, in which the student is currently enrolled (Revised UP Code: Art. 407). 
=== Summary of Credit Units ===
^ Category ^ Credit Units ^
| General Education | 27.0 |
| Core | 43.0 |
| Major | 63.0 |
| Electives | 12.0 |
| Total | 145.0 |
=== Curriculum Checklist ===
^  First Year  ^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| GE (CORE) WIKA 1 (Wika, Kultura at Lipunan) | 3.0 | MATH 10 (Math, Culture and Society) | 3.0 |
| GE (CORE) MATH 10 (Math, Culture, and Society) | 3.0 | COMM 10 (Critical Perspectives in Communication) | 3.0 |
| GE (CORE) KAS 1 (Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas) | 3.0 | SOC SCI 2 (Social, Economic and Political Thought) | 3.0 |
| Comm I (Communication Skills I) OR Kom I (Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon I) | 3.0 | Comm II / Kom II (Communication Skills II / Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon II) | 3.0 |
| Mathematics 11 (College Algebra) | 3.0 | Development Studies 100 (Intro. to Development Theories) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 11 (Introduction to Political Science) | 3.0 | Economics 11 (Introductory Economics) | 3.0 |
| PE 1 | 2.0 | PE 2 | 2.0 |
| NSTP 1 | 3.0 | NSTP 2 | 3.0 |
| Total | 15.0 | Total | 18.0 |

^  Second Year  ^^^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||  **Midyear**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| GE (PRESCRIBED) | 3.0 | Comm III Eng (Speech Communication) OR Comm III Fil (Komunikasyong Pasalita) | 3.0 | Area Studies 190 (Practicum in Area Studies) | 6.0 |
| Anthropology 1 (General Anthropology) | 3.0 | Economics 101 (Macroeconomics) | 4.0 |
| Economics 11 (Introductory Economics) | 3.0 | Political Science 14 (Philippine Government and Politics) | 3.0 |
| Philosophy 11 (Logic) | 3.0 | Government and Politics) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 11 (Introduction to Political Science) | 3.0 | History 102 (Modern Europe) | 3.0 |
| History 101 (Ancient and Medieval History) | 3.0 | History 114 (Cultural History of the Philippines) | 3.0 |
| PE 3 | 2.0 | PE 4 | 2.0 |
| Total | 18.0 | Total | 19.0 | Total | 6.0 |

^  Third Year  ^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| Anthropology 123 (Peoples of the Philippines) | 3.0 | Area Studies 121 (History, Politics, Culture, and Society of Southeast Asia) | 3.0 |
| Political Science 160 (Political Dynamics) | 3.0 | Area Studies 124 (History, Politics, Culture, and Society of West Asia and North Africa) | 3.0 |
| Geography 131 (Geography of the Philippines) | 3.0 | Area Studies 141 (Economic History of the Philippines) | 3.0 |
| History 116 (Philippine Nationalism) | 3.0 | Geography 143 (Geography of Asia) | 3.0 |
| Social Science 120 (Directed Readings in Social Sciences) | 3.0 | Social Science 199.1 (Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences) | 3.0 |
| Social Science Elective | 3.0 | Social Science Elective | 3.0 |
| Total | 18.0 | Total | 18.0 |

^  Fourth Year  ^^^^
|  **First Semester**  ||  **Second Semester**  ||
| **Course Code** | **Credit Units** | **Course Code** | **Credit Units** |
| Area Studies 122 (History, Politics, Culture, and Society of South Asia) | 3.0 | Area Studies 123 (History, Politics, Culture, and Society of East Asia) | 3.0 |
| Area Studies 125 (Economic History of Asia) | 3.0 | Area Studies 133 (Seminar on the Social Science of Philippine Health Issues) | 3.0 |
| Area Studies 131 (Seminar Issues in Asia and the Pacific) | 3.0 | Social Science 200 (Thesis) | 3.0 |
| Area Studies 132 (Seminar in Philippine Urban Issues) | 3.0 | Social Science Elective or Asian Foreign Language Elective | 3.0 |
| Social Science 199.2 (Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences) | 3.0 | PI 100 (The Life and Works of Jose Rizal) | 3.0 |
| Social Science Elective or Asian Foreign Language Elective | 3.0 | | |
| Total | 18.0 | Total | 15.0 |
=== Individual Course Titles and Descriptions with Credit Units, Pre-requisites, and/or Co-requisites ===
==== Major Courses ====
**Course Code:** Area Studies 101\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Area Studies\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the origins, theories, perspectives, scope, and methodologies of the area studies approach to social sciences\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 121\\
**Course Title:** History, Politics, Culture, and Society of Southeast Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the history, politics, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 122\\
**Course Title:** History, Politics, Culture, and Society of South Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the history, politics, cultures, and societies of South Asia\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 123\\
**Course Title:** History, Politics, Culture, and Society of East Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the history, politics, cultures, and societies of East Asia\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 124\\
**Course Title:** History, Politics, Culture, and Society of West Asia and North Africa\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the history, politics, cultures, and societies of West Asia and North Africa\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 125\\
**Course Title:** Economic History of Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Economics 11\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the historical development of Asian economy from the ancient times to the contemporary period\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 131\\
**Course Title:** Seminar on Issues in Asia and the Pacific\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Area Studies 101\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the problems, issues, and prospects in the Asia-Pacific world\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 132\\
**Course Title:** Seminar on Philippine Urban Issues\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 60 units including Area Studies 101\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses special problems in Philippine urbanization and development\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 133\\
**Course Title:** Seminar on the Social Science of Philippine Health Issues\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 60 units including Area Studies 101\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses special problems, issues, and prospects viewing the role of the Social Sciences in explaining and addressing current Philippine health issues\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 141\\
**Course Title:** Economic History of the Philippines\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Economics 11\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the historical development of Philippine economy from the precolonial times to the contemporary period\\
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**Course Code:** Area Studies 190\\
**Course Title:** Practicum in Area Studies\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 90 units\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course provides field experience in Area Studies\\
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**Course Code:** Geography 131\\
**Course Title:** Geography of the Philippines\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the role of human and natural resources in the economic growth and development of the Philippines\\
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**Course Code:** Geography 143\\
**Course Title:** Geography of Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the lands and peoples, climate, relief, resources and economic activities of the countries of Asia\\
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**Course Code:** History 101\\
**Course Title:** Ancient and Medieval History\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the history of Greece, Rome and Medieval Europe\\
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**Course Code:** History 102\\
**Course Title:** Modern Europe\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the history of Europe from the 16th century to the post-World War II period\\
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**Course Code:** History 114\\
**Course Title:** Cultural History of the Philippines\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the literary, artistic, and intellectual history of the Philippines from the Spanish period to the present\\
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**Course Code:** History 116\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Nationalism\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the growth and development of nationalism in the Philippines\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science 120\\
**Course Title:** Directed Readings in Social Sciences\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 60 units\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses specific readings in Social Sciences\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science 199.1\\
**Course Title:** Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Mathematics 11\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses basic and applied statistics as used in the various social sciences\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science 199.2\\
**Course Title:** Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 90 units\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses qualitative research methods in the Social Sciences\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science 200\\
**Course Title:** Thesis\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 90 units including Area Studies 101, Social Science 199.1, and Social Science 199.2\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course refers to the undergraduate thesis\\
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==== Core Courses ====
**Course Code:** Communication I\\
**Course Title:** Communication Skills I\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the development of communicative competence in English, with emphasis on reading, writing, and listening skills\\
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**Course Code:** Communication II\\
**Course Title:** Communication Skills II\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Communication I\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the development of more advanced language skills in logical thinking, critical reading, and effective writing\\
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**Course Code:** Communication III\\
**Course Title:** Speech Communication\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Communication II\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the development of communicative competence in listening and speaking in various communication situations\\
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**Course Code:** Komunikasyon I\\
**Course Title:** Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon I\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay sa kursong ito ang paglinang sa kakayahang magpahayag sa wikang Filipino, na nakatuon sa mabisa at mapanuring pagbasa, pagsulat at pakikinig\\
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**Course Code:** Komunikasyon II\\
**Course Title:** Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon II\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Komunikasyon I\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay sa kursong ito ang paglinang sa kasanayan sa paggamit ng wikang Filipino sa higit na mapanuring pag-iisip at mabisang pagbasa at pagsulat\\
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**Course Code:** Komunikasyon III\\
**Course Title:** Komunikasyong Pasalita\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Komunikasyon II\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay sa kursong ito ang paglinang ng kakayahan sa pakikinig at pagsasalita sa iba't ibang sitwasyong pangkomunikasyon\\
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**Course Code:** Anthropology 1\\
**Course Title:** General Anthropology\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the physical origin of man, his evolutionary development, nature of culture, and structure of social behavior\\
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**Course Code:** Anthropology 123\\
**Course Title:** Peoples of the Philippines\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Anthropology 1\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses ethnography and cultural ecology\\
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**Course Code:** Economics 11\\
**Course Title:** Introductory Economics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Mathematics 11 or 17\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the basic principles, economic institution, the national economy in a development setting\\
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**Course Code:** Economics 101\\
**Course Title:** Macroeconomics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Economics 11\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the national income, accounting; consumption & investment decisions; income & employment determination; monetary & fiscal policies; international policy; growth\\
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**Course Code:** Mathematics 11\\
**Course Title:** College Algebra\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** One year of high school algebra\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses linear equations, algebraic equations; exponents and radicals, complex number, binomial expansions, determinants, progressions, theory of equations\\
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**Course Code:** Philippine Institutions 100\\
**Course Title:** The Life and Works of Jose Rizal\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Must have taken 60 units\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the significance of the life and writings of Dr. Jose Rizal in the life of the Filipino people\\
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**Course Code:** Philosophy 11\\
**Course Title:** Logic\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses techniques of formal deduction within the scope of sentenial and predicate logic\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 11\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Political Science\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the concepts, theories and principles of political science, types of political systems; development of political institutions and processes\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 14\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Government and Politics\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the development, organization and operation of the Philippine political system with emphasis on the present\\
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**Course Code:** Political Science 160\\
**Course Title:** Society, Politics and Government\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Political Science 11 and 14\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses society as the matrix of politics; political power and leadership; patterns in decision-making; a political modernization and development\\
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**Course Code:** Sociology 101\\
**Course Title:** General Sociology\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the theoretical concerns of the fields of sociology and the various techniques in the study of social realities\\
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==== Electives ====
**Course Code:** History 103\\
**Course Title:** Political and Diplomatic History of Europe (1878 to the present)\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses European political and diplomatic history with emphasis on the Congress of Berlin, 1878 the European systems of alliances, the Near Eastern Question, the participation of Africa, the Anglo-German rivalry, the World War and the Post-War problems\\
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**Course Code:** History 105\\
**Course Title:** History of England\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses English history from the earliest times to the close of the reign of Queen Victoria\\
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**Course Code:** History 106\\
**Course Title:** History of Spain\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the historical development of Spain from the reign of King Charles I of Hapsburg Dynasty of 1898\\
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**Course Code:** History 107\\
**Course Title:** Eastern Europe\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses Eastern Europe including Russia from the earliest times to the present\\
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**Course Code:** History 110\\
**Course Title:** Colonial Philippines I\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the Philippines under Spain\\
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**Course Code:** History 111\\
**Course Title:** Colonial Philippines II\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the Philippines under U.S.\\
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**Course Code:** History 112\\
**Course Title:** Contemporary Philippines\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the Philippines after World War II\\
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**Course Code:** History 113\\
**Course Title:** History of the National Minorities\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the history of the cultural minorities particularly the Muslims and upland peoples, and their response to colonialism\\
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**Course Code:** History 115\\
**Course Title:** Philippine Revolution\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War\\
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**Course Code:** History 120\\
**Course Title:** Directed Readings in Philippine History\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses specific readings, discussions and papers based on primary sources, from the Spanish period to the present\\
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**Course Code:** History 151\\
**Course Title:** Modern East Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the history of China, Japan and Korea since 1800\\
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**Course Code:** History 152\\
**Course Title:** Modern South Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the history of the Indian subcontinent from the breakout of the Mogul Empire through the establishment of the Republic of Pakistan\\
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**Course Code:** History 154\\
**Course Title:** History of Southeast Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the history of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines, with emphasis on the Postcolonial period\\
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**Course Code:** History 156\\
**Course Title:** Political and Diplomatic History of East Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses early foreign intercourse of China, Japan and Korea with the West, the Treaty Settlements with China, and the Korean Question, the Sino-Japanese War, the partitions of China, and international aspect of the Boxer Uprising, the Russo-Japanese conflict, the Manchurian Question, and the East Asia up to the present\\
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**Course Code:** History 157\\
**Course Title:** Traditional Southeast Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses Southeast Asia from its pre-historic origins up to the advent of Western colonialism\\
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**Course Code:** History 158\\
**Course Title:** Modern Southeast Asia\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses Southeast Asia from the advent of Western colonialism to the present\\
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**Course Code:** History 166\\
**Course Title:** History of the United States I\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the colonial and revolutionary periods and the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the United States through the Civil War\\
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**Course Code:** History 167\\
**Course Title:** History of the United States II\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the political, social, and cultural developments of the Reconstruction period to the present\\
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**Course Code:** History 168\\
**Course Title:** Modern Latin America\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses Spanish and Portuguese American since 1800 with emphasis on political, social, economic and cultural development\\
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**Course Code:** History 169\\
**Course Title:** Selected Topics in the History of the Americas\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses selected topics on the Americas\\
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**Course Code:** History 170\\
**Course Title:** Africa\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the sub-Saharan Africa from the earliest times to the present\\
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**Course Code:** History 199\\
**Course Title:** Historical Methodology\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the principles, methods and problems of historical research and writings\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science 100\\
**Course Title:** Introduction to Social Sciences\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the nature, scope, basic concepts of the social sciences as an approach to the study of culture and society\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science Research 191\\
**Course Title:** Survey Research\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces the nature, concept, methods and tools of social science research\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science Research 196\\
**Course Title:** Computer Methods and Applications\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course use of computers in the solution of social science problems; includes programming, solution to quantitative problems, simulation and basic decision-model building\\
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==== GE Courses (only applicable to GE-offering units) ====
**Course Code:** Kasaysayan 1\\
**Course Title:** Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay ng kursong ito ang politikal, ekonomiko, panlipunan, at pangkalinangan na pag-unlad ng Pilipinas\\
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**Course Code:** Kasaysayan 2\\
**Course Title:** Ang Asya at ang Daigdig\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay ng kursong ito ang pamanang pangkabihasnan ng Asya at ang kaugnayan nito sa kabihasnang pandaigdig\\
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**Course Code:** Kasaysayan 3\\
**Course Title:** Mga Relihiyon sa Asya\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay ng kursong ito ang iba't ibang relihiyon sa Asya at ang paghubog nito sa kultura at tradisyong Asyano\\
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**Course Code:** Kasaysayan 4\\
**Course Title:** Ang Kababaihan sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay ng kursong ito ang karanasan, kalagayan, at pag-unlad ng kababaihan sa lipunang Pilipino\\
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**Course Code:** Kasaysayan 5\\
**Course Title:** Kasaysayang Pangkalusugan sa Pilipinas\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** Tinatalakay ng kursong ito ang kasaysayan ng pag-unlad ng aspetong pangkalusugan sa Pilipinas\\
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**Course Code:** Ethics 1\\
**Course Title:** Ethics and Moral Reasoning in Everyday Life\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course introduces ethics and moral reasoning\\
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**Course Code:** Philosophy 1\\
**Course Title:** Philosophical Analysis\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** None\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course discusses the application of basic concepts, skills and principles drawn from the Philosophy of Language Symbolic Logic Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and Ethics\\
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**Course Code:** Social Science II\\
**Course Title:** Social, Economic and Political Thought\\
**Credit Units:** 3.0\\
**Pre-requisite:** Sophomore standing\\
**Co-requisite:** None\\
**Course Description:** This course surveys social, economic and political thinkers from the classical to the contemporary\\
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__Notes:__\\
  - **Qualified Social Science Electives** include Social Science courses numbered 101 or higher with an option of 6 units of non-English and/or non-Philippine languages/dialects in one Asian language area (can be Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia, Thai, Chinese-Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, or others).\\
  - **Core/Required GE courses** (18 units) include COMM 10 (Critical Perspectives in Communication), WIKA 1 (Wika, Kultura at Lipunan), MATH 10 (Math, Culture and Society), STS 1 (Science, Technology and Society), KAS 1 (Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas), and ETHICS 1 (Ethics and Moral Reasoning in Everyday Life).\\
  - **Prescribed GE courses** (9 units) are chosen from KAS 2 (Ang Asya at ang Daigdig), KAS 3 (Mga Relihiyon ng Asya), KAS 4 (Ang Kababaihan sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas), KAS 5 (Kasaysayang Pangkalusugan sa Pilipinas), PHILO 1 (Philosophical Analysis), and SOC SCI 2 (Social, Economic and Political Thought)