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Course Syllabi
- ASAN 493 - Globalization: Impact on the Philippines/SEA
This course examines globalization as a process and a condition, whose impact on Third World countries is nowhere more pronounced than today.
It shall focus on the Philippines, a highly westernized but relatively underdeveloped Asian society, and selected countries in Southeast Asia,
such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. At least four dimensions of the global process will be discussed: political,
economic, cultural, and ecological.
- ASAN 491P - Islam in the Philippines
Examines the history, growth and manifestations of Islam in the Philippines. The course also attempts to relate the events after 9/11 in some
countries in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. It incorporates alternative pedagogical methods with the usual
lecture-and-text approach to enhance learning while it harnesses recent advances in digital technology by taking students to a “cyber classroom,”
and interact with a group of undergraduates from MSU Iligan Institute of Technology, in Mindanao.
- ASAN 320P - Asian Nations: Philippines
This course is a general introductory course to Philippine society and culture with particular emphasis on the historical, economic, political,
social, international and other major forces that have shaped the institutions and lives of the Filipino people today. It will be
interdisciplinary combining general approaches to knowledge and learning, not limited to a single or narrow dimension of culture, e.g.,
economics, politics, religion, language, geography and so on.
- ASAN 620P - Contemporary Problems/Issues in the Philippines/SEA
- ASAN 750S - Research in the Field in SEA
- Soc 100 - Introduction to the Study of Society
Basic social relationships, norms, social structures and processes affecting social change.
- Soc 316 - Survey of Social Change
Causes, processes and effects of social change, using single- and multi-cause models in simple and complex industrialized societies.
- PACE 485 - Conflict & Peacemaking in Southeast Asia
Examines the various types of conflict and the modalities of peacemaking in selected countries in Southeast Asia. Focus shall be
on the current conflicts, mainly ethnic/racial, and those influenced by secessionist and ideological struggles. Peacemaking efforts
are shown with an eye to the use of indigenous methods and other mechanisms of conflict management.
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