Alternative activities for Soc. Sci. 1 and Pol. Sci. 193.

The alternative activities (articles for online discussion) will be provided after the holiday break.

America’s Pacific Century (?) (Pol Sci. 182)

Last month, November 2011, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wrote an article in the Foreign Policy Magazine declaring “America’s Pacific Century”

According to this article;

“At a time when the region is building a more mature security and economic architecture to promote stability and prosperity, U.S. commitment there is essential.”

Read the whole article from the link here

and anser the following questions,

1. What is the potential implication of the policy that Clinton outlined to regional security in general and to  Philippine-US relations in particular?

Feel free to react on your classmates points and to link other online sources for discussion.

Your comments here will serve as a substitute for the December 16 class meeting that we will miss.

You can comment until December 18.

International Education Opportunity.

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If you are interested, you may ask the Division office for further information. This is a great opportunity to seethe world and provide an international credential for your intended career.

Read the details below.

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The University of the Philippines, as one of the participating universities in the ASEAN Universities Network (AUN) is pleased to announce the AUN_ACTS (ASEAN Credit Transfer System) Student Mobility Program (SMP). The said program aims: (1) to benefit the students in ASEAN universities in obtaining academic experiences in overseas institutions; and (20 to facilitate recognition and transfer of credits for courses taken by the students in participating Universities to degree programs of Home Universities (in our case, the UP System or UPS).

In line with this, may request you to encourage your students (both undrgraduate and graduate) to participate in this program. Please refer to the attached protocol on the availment of this program.

Please note that the number of students to be supported by the UPS per year will be determined at the system level.  The total projected expenses of these students should not exceed the yearly UPS budget of PhP2.0M. In addition, the only country member of AUN, with more or less the same Academic Calendar as that of UPS, is Thailand. This makes Thailand as the preferred destination for the AUN-ACTS-SMP studentgrantees from UPS, in order not to have significant disruptions in our students’ study plans.

For your immediate action.

Please check folder for details, Kindly advertise to your students.

fROM:  ENCARNACION EMILIA S. YAP

       OVCAA

Thank you.

Soc. Sci. 199.2 Announcement regarding the schedule matrix

This is to clarify some concerns regarding the submissions schedules published for the class.

Based on the earlier consultation, where some of you were present, the schedule may vary depending on the pace of your work. The varying pace being referred to here is your data gathering, not the entire requirements identified in the schedule matrix. In addition, this differences in pacing is expected to continue, and will be tolerated, only in the initial weeks of the scheduled submissions.

 

 

 

Class Readings for Pol. Sci. 182

Please check the link below for previous post of the two assigned readings, one by San-Pablo Baviera and another by de Castro

 

http://brianventura.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/pol-sci-182-articles-for-class-discussion/

Course outlines for Second Semester AY 2011-12

Download the files below for this semester’s course outline.

 

Course Outline Soc. Sci. 1 SS AY 11-12

Course Outline Pol. Sci. 182 SS AY 11-12

Course Outline Pol. Sci. 193 SS AY 11-12

Course Outline Soc. Sci.199.2 SS AY 11-12