BPA

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 includes an introduction to statistics, statistical descriptions, frequency distributions, possibilities and probabilities, probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, testing hypotheses based on measurements, count data, paired data and use of nonparametric tests.

Special topics and problems in Public Administration