BPA

Voluntary Sector Management course focuses in management and leadership in the voluntary sector. The course covers topics such as leadership and management development, managing team performance, service improvement, project management, strategic planning, resource management and working collaboratively.

Contemporary thinking and practice in the domain of public enterprises and social enterprises.

The course will offer a critical overview of current environmental policy, planning, and management in both local and global contexts. Understanding purposeful efforts to apply environmental knowledge to practice in order to accomplish specific objectives in the use and management of landscapes, societies, and/or natural ecosystems is at the core of this course. Also, this course is intended to support and facilitate the development of environmental management system (EMS) among small and medium-sized organizations. It explains how to develop and implement an effective EMS and how it can supports organization’s mission and goals.

Purposive Communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.

Local and Regional Governance

This course is accounting and reporting for government. A large part of the course covers the Philippine Government Accounting Standards (PGAS) and the New Government Accounting System (NGAS) prescribed by the Commission on Audit. This course will also introduced and explain the budgeting process of the government and proper allotment of the government in the presence of financial reports. 

This course will help the students understand the fundamental accounting concepts and principles. They will also be introduced to the double entry system of recording transactions, the accounting cycle and an introduction to the merchandising business. It also emphasizes the construction of financial statements which includes the statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity and statement of cash flows. Students will also be oriented about special and combination journals as well as the voucher system. Basic concepts about manufacturing operations will also be tackled.

This course deals with the interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that shape and are shaped by them. 

This interdisciplinary course engages students to confront the realities brought about by science and technology in society. Such realities pervade the personal, the public, and the global aspects of our living and are integral to human development. Scientific knowledge and technological development happen in the context of society with all its socio-political, cultural, economic, and philosophical underpinnings at play. This course seeks to instill reflective knowledge in the students that they are able to live the good life and display ethical decision-making in the face of scientific and technological advancement.