TENTATIVE UNDERGRADUATE and GRADUATE COURSE OFFERINGS
January 15, 2021
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
School of Social Sciences, Loyola Schools
Ateneo de Manila University
TENTATIVE UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OFFERINGS*
Second Semester, SY 2020-2021
School of Social Sciences, Loyola Schools
Ateneo de Manila University
TENTATIVE UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OFFERINGS*
Second Semester, SY 2020-2021
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CATALOGUE NUMBER |
COURSE DESCRIPTION |
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SOCSC 11 |
Understanding the Self Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives across the social sciences, SocSci 11 probes and integrates the plural understanding of the self. The course frames the self as a thinking and sensing, affecting and behaving, and physiological and embodied person engaging in meaningful relations within the broader social and cultural worlds that enable and constrain. Through a reflexive process, an embedded and engaged self is expressed, realized and transformed within intersecting personal and social relationships, localities, cosmopolitan spaces, and rapidly shifting technological worlds. |
| SOCSC 12 |
The Contemporary World This course explores the making of the contemporary world from an interdisciplinary social sciences perspective, seeking a comprehensive and critical understanding of modernity and its diverse aspects. It examines the cultural, economic, political and social transformations that have shaped the contemporary world and evaluates their effects on social actions, structures, spaces, ideas and institutions. This course also studies the processes that have brought about an increasing consciousness of the interconnections and interrelationships of local peoples and spaces around the globe, as well as dilemmas brought about by such changes and the responses to them. The perspectives and approaches emphasize the interfaces between local and global realities, situating the Philippines and its contemporary challenges amidst these complex processes. |
| SOCIO 102 |
Sociology of the Philippines | Dr. E. Leviste A critical discussion of selected contemporary social issues in the Philippines using sociological perspectives, theories, and social science research methods. |
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SOCIO 103.2 |
Sociological Theories 2 | Dr. L. Lim and Dr. G Wui This course is a study of theories of societies developed in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a discussion of the theorists within their historical milieu, as well as their contribution to the social sciences. |
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SOCIO 192.1 (SA 100) |
Statistical Analysis for the Social Sciences | Ms. J. Claudio This course is an introduction to statistics as a research tool for assessing social phenomena, focusing on selected univariate and bivariate measures, both descriptive and inferential. The approach is non-mathematical, emphasizing the application of appropriate statistical procedures to specific problems. |
| ANTH 112.1 |
Issue and Debates in Philippine Archaeology | Dr. A. Pawlik This course reviews and assesses current research on the archaeology of the Philippines. It will investigate major sites and finds, review the chronology, and facilitate our current knowledge of human evolution, migration and dispersal across the region, identify early maritime interaction, and debate the processes of human colonization and the associated environmental and cultural adaptation to insular environments. It will, furthermore, examine how changes in landscape, sea-level and biodiversity influenced the mobility and successful adaptation of past human populations across the archipelago and investigate the relationship between prehistoric human migrants, palaeoenvironment and fauna in this region. |
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ANTH 194.1 (SA 104) |
Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnographic Fieldwork Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences | Dr. J. Canuday and Fr. A. Alejo This course is an analysis of anthropological and sociological works, focusing on the claims and conclusions presented, the research methods used, and the different theoretical approaches employed. The skills needed for qualitative data collection are developed by designing and implementing research projects. |
| SA 105 |
Practicum I | Ms C. Alfiler, Dr. E. Leviste, Dr. A. Soco-Roda Students undertake research for practical training in this application course. Focus is on the social survey, a research approach widely used in the social sciences. Students go through the survey process from conceptualization to report writing, and finally, to the presentation of findings. |
| SOCIO 114.2 |
Industrial and Other Complex Organizations | Dr. E. Porio This is a course on the structures and processes of large-scale formal bureaucracies such as industrial, commercial, governmental, religious, military, political, and educational organizations. |
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SOCIO 119.1 |
Contemporary Social Problems: Focus on Climate Disasters and Governance of Cities | Dr. E. Porio This is a seminar course on the socio-political construction, resolution, and maintenance of social problems in contemporary society. The course examines the major theoretical frameworks — structural functionalist, conflict/political economy, and interpretive perspectives — utilized in the analysis and understanding of contemporary social problems. This course, in particular, will interrogate how the problem of climate disasters has reconfigured risks governance structures and processes in cities and in various communities of practice. |
| SOAN 137.1 |
Sex, Culture, and Society | Dr. E. Eviota This is a course on sexuality as a social behavior – how it is acquired and reproduced in everyday lives of men and women; how it is experienced within and among different groups; and how it is connected to the social, political, and economic systems. |
| SOAN 138.2 |
Gender and Development | Dr. E. Eviota This course is a study of the key role of gender in Philippine society and economic development. Focus is on gender issues in Philippine society; the interconnections between gender, the state, and economic development; and the needs, strategies, and methods in policy, organizing, and research. |
| SOAN 131.1 |
Religion, Culture and Society| Fr. A. Alejo, SJ and Mr Marcos C Medina This course shows that "syncretism" and "acculturation" are in fact universal and therefore "normal" phenomena. It examines the influence of culture upon religion and the influence of religion upon culture, and the process that takes place when \religions encounter each other. |
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SOAN 173 (SA 199.1) |
Special Topics in the Social Sciences: Culture and the Senses | Dr. F. Zialcita This course introduces the varied aspects of cultural heritage. Two alternative ways are explored in the course: 1) look for and appreciate the grammar of major human artifacts; and 2) identify the hallmarks of the Filipino sensibility as manifested by vernacular terms and particular artifacts. |
| ANTH 177.1 |
Engaged Anthropology | Dr. M. Racelis Basic concepts of civil society, the state and the private sector are reviewed as three sectors in society acting separately as well as in interaction within local, national and international settings. Emphasis is given to the examination of civil society as non-market and non-state organizations outside of the family whose roles as “the third sector” emphasize social accountability, empowering communities, and ensuring good governance. Joining interactive class sessions will be key nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), people’s organizations (POs), cooperatives (Co-ops), local interest groups, faith-based organizations, professional associations, academia and media organizations. Students will be expected to align with one CSO of their choice to participate in the work of the organization during the semester, following the engaged modes of co-production, co-ownership and co-creation. The agreed output will constitute a major component in judging the student’s performance. (Development anthropology, which brought the dimensions of culture and social structure into development programs dominated by technological and economic frameworks, has recently been critiqued by Post-Development anthropologists for its limited accomplishments in reducing poverty or improving the lives of millions of people. These perspectives will be elaborated through studying various kinds of development programs with their Post-Development implications. Attention to engaged anthropology is also included, in which anthropologists draw on their research to serve also as human rights advocates for and with the exploited or harassed communities they are studying.) |
| SOAN 123.1 |
Cities and Society (Risk and Resilience: Focus on Climate Disasters, Development, and Humanitarian Action) | Dr. E. Porio Urbanization, development, land-use decisions, and social/political policy dynamics have increased the risk and vulnerability of societies to natural and man-made disasters. Social-political and economic processes/interventions designed to reduce social vulnerabilities and increase their resilience also reconfigure the disaster management cycle from mitigation, preparation, response and recovery. This course examines how the societal construction of risk, vulnerability and resilience intersects with development initiatives and disaster planning/policy efforts to reduce social vulnerabilities and reconfigure the initiatives of communities/groups to increase as well as promote resilience and reduce their own vulnerabilities. |
| SOAN 142.2 |
Environment and Behavior | Dr. L. Lim and Mr. J. Dalupang This course discusses basic ecological concepts currently used yet often poorly understood. The course utilizes case studies to clarify feedback relationships between particular societies and their environment, and then proposes practical research strategies for students to use in conducting anthropological fieldwork with an ecological orientation. |
| SOAN 180.3 |
Topics in Sociology and Anthropology: Media and Social Media | Dr. J. Lorenzana Using anthropological and sociological approaches, the course examines media as institution, practice and experience. It focuses on how media in the contemporary world constitute social and cultural formations and shape politics. Ethnographies of traditional and digital media from different societies and periods provide a comparative perspective to critically understand the ways in which people produce, consume, engage, inhabit, use and incorporate media into everyday life. |
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
School of Social Sciences, Loyola Schools
Ateneo de Manila University
TENTATIVE GRADUATE COURSE OFFERINGS*
Second Semester, SY 2020-2021
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NEW CATALOGUE NUMBER |
COURSE DESCRIPTION |
| ANTH 244.2 |
Readings in Archaeology | Dr. A. Pawlik This course provides an introductory overview of archaeological excavations and discoveries, with an emphasis on understanding how change happened in the early periods of human history. Topics include human evolution and the beginnings of humankind, the palaeo-geography during the Quaternary period (Pleistocene and Holocene), overviews of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, and the transition from hunter/gatherer subsistence to farming and agriculture and finally to complex societies. We will review the associated chronology, relevant archaeological sites and finds, and introduce and discuss the common research methods and concepts in archaeology.. |
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ANTH 292.1 SOCIO 292.1 |
Research Techniques | Dr. J. Canuday This is a course on the logic of empirical research in sociology and anthropology. It examines the suitable approaches to a variety of typical research problems; their advantages and limitations; and their translation into specific plans for investigation. |
| SOAN 223 |
Risk and Resilience: Focus on Climate Disasters, Development, and Humanitarian Action | Dr. E. Porio Urbanization, development, land-use decisions, and social/political policy dynamics have increased the risk and vulnerability of societies to natural and man-made disasters. Social-political and economic processes/interventions designed to reduce social vulnerabilities and increase their resilience also reconfigure the disaster management cycle from mitigation, preparation, response and recovery. This course examines how the societal construction of risk, vulnerability and resilience intersects with development initiatives and disaster planning/policy efforts to reduce social vulnerabilities and reconfigure the initiatives of communities/groups to increase as well as promote resilience and reduce their own vulnerabilities. |
| SOAN 292.1 |
Research in Social Systems In this integrated graduate seminar course with SOAN 292.2, students develop their research prospectus. Students are guided in planning and writing their thesis proposal: identifying research questions; developing research frameworks; selecting appropriate data collection techniques and analytical tools; and designing a time frame for their study. Note: Please ENLIST to your respective ADVISER. |
| SOAN 292.2 |
Readings in Social Systems In this integrated graduate seminar course with SOAN 292.1, students develop their research prospectus. The courses walk the students through the process of planning and writing their seminar paper and/or thesis proposal. Note: Please ENLIST to your respective ADVISER. |
| SOCIO 225.1 |
Complex Organizations| Dr. E. Porio This is a course on the structures and processes of large scale formal bureaucracies such as industrial, commercial, governmental, religious, military, political, and educational organizations. |
| SOCIO 227 |
SOCIO 227. Contemporary Social Problems: Focus on Climate Disasters, Governance and Social Inequality | Dr. E. Porio This course discusses socio-political construction, resolution, and maintenance of social problems or issues in contemporary society. It examines major theoretical framework(s) traditionally used in the analysis of contemporary social problems. It introduces the “post-modern turn;” and challenges to predominantly “positivist” approaches to understanding “social problem” within the context of climate disasters and increasing social inequalities in cities, in particular and larger society, in general. |
| SOCIO 269.2 |
Sp. Topics in Socio-Anthro: Perspectives and Critiques in the Sociology of Education Dr. E. Abaya This course introduces students to the main concepts and theories comprising the field of sociology of education. It employs different sociological perspectives in examining in a nuanced manner the relationship among education, power, knowledge, and the state while mainly offering a conceptual analysis and criticism of social reproduction in education prevalent in both local and global contexts. It also endeavors to encourage and enable students to advance new directions for theoretical and empirical research in the context of Southeast Asia. |
| SOCIO 392.2 |
Seminar on Advanced Research Methods | Dr. J. Canuday This course is a seminar on problems and issues in contemporary social science, both macro and micro studies, proceeding from major sociological perspectives: functionalism, conflict, and interactionism. |
| SOCIO 393 |
Proseminar on Quantitative Analysis | Dr A Soco-Roda This course is a critical examination of statistical and other mathematical models in the social sciences as well as their applications in social research. |
| SOAN 296 | Comprehensive Examinations |
| SOCIO 396 | Comprehensive Examinations |
| SOAN 299.1 | Thesis I |
| SOAN 299.2 | Thesis II |
| SOAN 299.4 | Oral Defense |
| SOAN 299.5 | Residency |
| SOAN 299.6 | Final Paper Submission |
| SOCIO 399.1 | Dissertation I |
| SOCIO 399.2 | Dissertation II |
| SOCIO 399.4 | Oral Defense |
