Development Studies Program
Course Offerings
First SEMESTER, S.Y. 2023-2024
DEV 100.2 - PERSPECTIVES IN DEVELOPMENT: POLITICS
Section L: Erron C. Medina / T-F, 1100-1230pm / CTC 408
Section M: Erron C. Medina / T-F, 1230-200pm / CTC 408
» This course introduces the various perspectives in the politics of development, underlining the importance of the “political element” in the development process. Theoretical concepts and issues provide the parameters for a discussion of the nature of politics in the Philippines from a historical and comparative perspective.
NOTE: Pre-requisite- DEV 100.1
DEV 106.1i - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & SOCIAL CHANGE
Section B: Dr. Mark Anthony D. Abenir / M-Th, 930-1100am / (For DS Majors. Paired with SOCSC 13)
Section F: Anna Mae D. Bautista / M-Th, 330-500pm / CTC 408
Section G: Anna Mae D. Bautista / M-Th, 500-630pm / CTC 408
» This course introduces students to the art of introducing and sustaining development interventions on various levels. Inputs from development practitioners demonstrate the basic principles discussed in the lectures. It frames development interventions as social change projects and draws from change management literature
DEV 108 - COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
Section Q: Celso C. Santiago Jr / T-F, 630-800pm / CTC 408
Section V: Emmanuel Joseph B. Solis II / Wed, 600-900pm / CTC 408
» This course discusses the role of communication in social change, particularly in the context of its potential to facilitate changes in knowledge and behaviors among stakeholders in development programs. Students examine the theory behind the tools employed in communication programs and identify patterns in application.
DEV 109 - INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT
Section G: Dr. Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz / M-Th, 500-630pm / CTC 102
» This course discusses the role of communication in social change, particularly in the context of its potential to facilitate changes in knowledge and behaviors among stakeholders in development programs. Students examine the theory behind the tools employed in communication programs and identify patterns in application.
DEV 193.1 - STATISTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Section K: Jessica Sandra R. Claudio / T-F, 930-1100am / SS 284
Section L: Dr. Leslie A. Lopez / T-F, 1100-1230pm / SS 284
» This introductory statistics course aims to equip students with knowledge, concepts, and statistical tools needed for better understanding of data in their design, monitoring and evaluation or various social development initiatives. The focus of the course is on selected descriptive and inferential statistics as integrated within the various phases of the project life cycle. For better understanding, and application of the statistical concepts and tools, the course takes a more practical and hands-on approach utilizing real-life illustrations on the use and misuse of statistics in project design and implementation.
NOTE: For AB DS Majors
DEV 194 - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
Section O: Erron C. Medina / T-F, 330-500pm / CTC 408
Section T: Erron C. Medina / Wed, 1200-300pm / CTC 408
» This course introduces students to the various qualitative methods in the social sciences. The course begins with a discussion of the methodological implications of the use of qualitative
methods. It then proceeds to a discussion of the various qualitative methods including an assessment of their strengths and limitations.
NOTE: For AB DS Majors
DEV 198.1 - RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
Section ZZZ: Dr. Leslie A. Lopez / DS Office
Section ZZZ1: Benigno C. Balgos / DS Office
Section ZZZ2: Dr. Mark Anthony D. Abenir / DS Office
Section ZZZ3: Emmanuel Joseph B. Solis II / DS Office
Section ZZZ4: Jessica Sandra R. Claudio / DS Office
Section ZZZ5: Dr. Segundo Joaquin E. Romero Jr. / DS Office
Section ZZZ6: Edwin M. Salonga / Tutorial / ONLINE
Section ZZZ7: Dr. Lara Katrina T. Mendoza / DS Office
Section ZZZ8: Dr. Rosette Gilda C. Librea / DS Office
Section ZZZ9: Dr. Kevin Christopher L. Go / DS Office
Section ZZZ10: Dr. Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz / DS Office
Section ZZZ11: Josephine Andrea M. Dela Cruz / DS Office
Section ZZZ12: Marcia Czarina Corazon M. Medina-Guce / DS Office
Section ZZZ13: Anna Mae D. Bautista / DS Office
Section ZZZ14: Dr. Maria Andrea S. Roda / DS Office
Section ZZZ15: Mary Grace P. Santos / DS Office
Section ZZZ16: Erron C. Medina / DS Office
Section ZZZ17: Maria Victoria F. Punay / DS Office
Section ZZZ18: Ana Maria B. Raymundo / DS Office
Section ZZZ19: David Alexander D. Laurel / DS Office
Section ZZZ20: Melissa Y. Yap / DS Office
» This research course requires students to undertake a critical review of articles and examine the methodologies used in testing hypotheses within a particular field of study. The required output of this course is equivalent to a thesis proposal.
NOTE: Thesis Class
DEV 198.2 - FIELD SPECIALIZATION
Section ZZZ1: Dr. Segundo Joaquin E. Romero Jr / DS Office
Section ZZZ3: Melissa Y. Yap / DS Office
Section ZZZ5: Dr. Leslie A. Lopez / DS Office
» This course provides a synthesis of the courses taken for the AB Development Studies degree program. Students are expected to complete a thesis or a project. This course provides students with an opportunity to apply the lessons they have learned from their AB Development Studies Program.
NOTE: Thesis Class
ELECTIVES:
DEV 181.2i - DISASTER RISK REDUCTION & SOCIETY
Section V: Benigno C. Balgos / Mon, 600-900pm / CTC 407
» This is an introduction to disaster risk reduction and society. The course deals of nature-based disaster to which the understanding of human/societal factors is crucial. It comprises two components to disaster risk reduction: knowledge and practice. From the geographical perspectives, it explores interactions between humans and topographic features of environment, and risk contemporary societies face. A discussion on practice of risk management and capacity building is included. Emphasis is placed on the engagement with place. Field-based projects, suh as geohazard mapping ang assessment of a community, and fieldwork in a disaster prone settlement are part of the course.
DEV 183.13 - SOCIAL MARKETING
Section H2: Edwin M, Salonga / Thu, 600-900pm / CTC 206
» This course is an overview of basic marketingn principles and how these can and must be used to support various development interventions. Case studies are analyzed to illustrate the concrete application of social marketing theories.
DEV 183.23i - MONITORING & EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Section U: Dr. Rosette Gilda C. Librea / Wed, 300-600pm / CTC 408
» This course introduces the extent to which programs deliver results in addressing various development problems. Its approaches and tools are applicable in a variety of issues including welfare assistance, public health, livelihood, human rights and peace building. It also covers different theoretical and practical issues in institutionalizing a results-based monitoring and evaluation system. The course draws on the discipline of economics, sociology, communication, public health, and public administration to ensure that monitoring and evaluation are aligned with the principles of resilience, competitiveness, and sustainability.
DEV 183.40 - SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Section S: Marcia Czarina Corazon M. Medina-Guce / Wed, 900-1200nn / CTC 408
» This course introduces students to social accountability as an approach to achieving development and democratic outcomes particularly in contexts with weak legal accountability mechanisms. It dives deep into issues of transparency, citizen participation, open government, and democratic innovations, and their contributions to amplifying citizen voice and responsive governance. The course features case studies both global and local and highlights lessons learned for citizen empowement.
DEV 186.44 - ISSUES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Section T: Dr. Rosette Gilda C. Librea / Wed, 1200-300pm / CTC 307
» This is an in-depth review of sustainable development. Topics include the dialectical impact of population, urbanization, poverty, and markets on sustainable development. Interventions for sustainable development are assessed.
DEV 186.56 - LEGAL ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT
Section H: Atty. Josephine Andrea M. Dela Cruz / M-Th, 630-800pm / CTC 408
» This is a seminar/workshop on current issues concerning development in the Philippine context, as manifested in legal controversies that accompany the process of development. Topics include housing and urban development; agrarian reform and rural development; gender and development; labor rights; and social autonomy.
DEV 187.2 - RADICAL GEOGRAPHY AND THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT
Section L: Dr. Maria Andrea S. Roda / T-F, 1100-1230pm / F 113
» This course interrogates issues of social development using methods and perspectives of radical geography. The focus is on the spatialities of inequality, on the geographical specificities of power relations and the unequal distribution of resources at individual, local, national, and regional scales. Through a survey of work in radical geography, an analysis of thematic maps, field visits, and case studies of development initiatives, student development alternative discourses and frameworks to challenge structures that stratify and to create spaces for social change.
DEV 187.4i A - INCLUSIVE CITIES
Section K: Dr. Segundo Joaquin E. Romero Jr / T-F, 930-1100am / F 113
Section N: Dr. Segundo Joaquin E. Romero Jr / T-F, 200-330pm / F 113
» This course argues that excellent urban areas are neither accidental nor entirely spontaneous. Planned-for-ingredients of urban success are socio-economic, social, and spatial inclusiveness, diversity, environmental sustainability, good governance, and creativity. The course facilitates the identification and analysis of social exclusion and inequality in urban spaces, and of emerging urban development strategies and planning interventions that aim to make cities livable for all. Key concepts and tools, best practices and instructive historical examples are discussed extensively to enable the student to critically appraise, analyze, and plan for inclusive and sustainable cities
DEV 189.83i - SURVEY OF PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
Section S: Erron C. Medina / Wed, 900-1200nn / CTC 118
» An unprecendented interest in public health policy and practice has expanded public health - initially limited to sanitation and infectious disease control - to intersect with disciplines relating to economics, communication, and the law. Interventions such as conditional cash transfers, social health insurance, taxation in tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages, graphic health warnings have been widely implemented not just in the Philippines but in many development countries as well. This course aims to deepen students' understanding of these public health interventions, their effectiveness, and critique their design and practice.