LA UNION COLLEGES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

CENTRAL WEST, BAUANG, LA UNION

COURSE SYLLABUS
SECOND SEMESTER
SY 2017-2018

I. Degree: Grade 11-Caregiving

Course Code/Title: UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY and POLITICS
II. Vision:
La Union Colleges of Science and Technology, Inc., envisions itself to be a learning community characterized by academic excellence, creative activity, social responsibility and integrity.
III. Mission:
La Union Colleges of Science and Technology, Inc. commits itself to provide well-rounded educational trainings and experiences to students whose knowledge, skills and value system will
enable them to adjust to an ever-changing society, be competitive in the global market and contribute to the improvement of the quality of life.
IV. Course Description: This course uses insights from Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology to develop students’ awareness of cultural, social and political dynamics, and sensitivity to
cultural diversity; provide them with an understanding of how culture, human agency, society and politics work; and engage them in the examination of the country’s current human
development goals.
V. Credit: 80 hours
VI. Course Objectives:
At the end of the course, students must be able to:
1. Students should acquire ideas about human cultures, human agency, society and politics;
2. Recognize cultural relativism and social inclusiveness to overcome prejudices; and
3. Develop social and cultural competence to guide their interactions with groups, communities, networks, and institutions.
VII. Course Requirement:
A. Quizzes
B. Assignment
C. Attendance
D. Portfolio
E. Major examination
VIII. Course Content:
METHODS AND
LEARNING CONTENT TIME EXPECTED OUTCOME STRATEGIES INSTRUCTIONAL EVALUATION
ALLOTMEN MATERIALS
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Unit I Week 1-4 At the end of the unit the students may be Lecture Chalk Board Reading Task and
A. Starting points for the able to: Group Reporting PowerPoint Presentation Written Output
understanding of culture, society, and a) Articulate observations on human Pictures/Photographs (Essay Making),
politics cultural variation, social Quiz,
1. Sharing of social and cultural differences, social change, and Brainstorming,
backgrounds of students as acting political identities Performance-
subjects or social actors, agents, b) Demonstrate curiosity and an based Task (Role
persons; (examples: gender, openness to explore the origins Play)
socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and dynamics of culture and
religion, exceptionality/non- society, and political identities
exceptionality, nationality) c) Analyze social, political, and
2. Observations about social, cultural change
political, and cultural behavior and d) Recognize the common concerns
phenomena (examples: food taboos, or intersections of anthropology,
istambay, political dynasties, sociology, and political science
elections) with respect to the phenomenon
3. Observations on social, of change
political,and cultural change e) Identify the subjects of inquiry and
(examples: txting, transnational goals of Anthropology, Political
families, local public services, youth Science, and Sociology
volunteerism)
4. Definition of anthropology, political
science, and sociology
B. Defining Culture and Society from Week 5-10 At the end of the unit the students may be Lecture Pictures/Photographs Quizzes
the perspectives of anthropology and able to: PowerPoint Presentation Research work
sociology a) Explain anthropological and Drawing
1. Society as a group of people sociological perspectives on culture Quarterly
sharing a common culture and society Examination
2. Culture as a “‘that complex whole b) Describe society and culture as a
which encompasses beliefs, complex whole
practices, values, attitudes, laws, c) Identify aspects of culture and
norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, society
and everything that a person learns d) Raise questions toward a holistic
and shares as a member of appreciation of cultures and
society.” (E.B. Tylor 1920 [1871]). societies
3. Aspects of Culture
a) Dynamic, Flexible, &
Adaptive
b) Shared & Contested (given
the reality of
c) social differentiation)
d) Learned through
socialization or enculturation
e) Patterned social interactions
f) Integrated and at times
unstable
g) Transmitted through
socialization/enculturation
h) Requires language and
other forms of
communication
4. Ethnocentrism and Cultural
Relativism as orientations in viewing
other cultures
C. Looking back at Human Biocultural
and Social Evolution
1) Biological and cultural
evolution: from Homo habilis
(or earlier) to Homo sapiens
sapiens in the fossil record
2) Cultural and sociopolitical
evolution: from hunting and
gathering to the agricultural,
industrial , and post-industrial
revolutions
a) The Neolithic Revolution
b) Early civilization and the
rise of the state
c) Democratization
QUARTERLY EXAMINATION
D. How society is organized
Groups within society: Primary and
Secondary
In-groups and out-groups
Reference groups
Networks
e) Become aware of why and how
cultural relativism mitigates
ethnocentrism
f) Identify forms of tangible and
intangible heritage and the threats
to these
g) Trace the biological and cultural
evolution of early to modern
humans
h) Explore the significance of human
material remains and artefactual
evidence in interpreting cultural
and social, including political and
economic, processes
i) Recognize national, local, and
specialized museums, and
archaeological and historical sites
as venues to appreciate and reflect
on the complexities of biocultural
and social evolution as part of
being and becoming human
Week 11-15 At the end of the unit the students may be Lecture PowerPoint Presentation Quizzes
able to: Pictures/Photographs Research work
a) Traces kinship ties and social Drawing
networks Performance Task
b) Describe the organized nature of (Role Play)
social life and rules governing
 E. Cultural, social and political behavior
institutions c) Compare different social forms of
Kinship, marriage, and the household social organization according to their
a) Kinship by blood Descent manifest and latent functions
and marriage d) Analyze social and political
(unilineal, matrilineal, structures
patrilineal, bilateral) Kinship e) Analyze economic organization and
by marriage its impacts on the lives of people in
b) Marriage rules cross- the society
culturally (monogamy vs.
polygamy, post-marital
residency rules, referred
marriage partners
c) Kinship by ritual
(Compadrazgo)
d) Family and the household,
Nuclear, extended, and
reconstituted families
(separated, transnational)
e) Politics of kinship (political
dynasty, alliances)
F. Social and political stratification Week 16-19 At the end of the unit the students may be Lecture PowerPoint Presentation Quizzes
a) Social desirables (wealth, able to: Pictures/Photographs Research work
power, prestige) a) Examine stratification from the Drawing
b) Social mobility system functionalist and conflict Quarterly
i. Open (Class) perspectives Examination
ii. Closed (Caste) b) Identify characteristics of the
c) Social inequality systems of stratification
i. Access to social, political, c) Suggest ways to address global
and symbolic capital inequalities
ii. Gender inequality
iii. Ethnic minorities
iv. Other minorities (e.g.,
persons with disabilities)
v. Global Inequality
(relationships between states and
nonstate actors in the global
community
QUARTERLY EXAMINATION
IX. Values to be integrated:
Creativity, honesty, cooperation, patriotism, self-discipline, time management.
X. Reference:
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics; Francisco C. Riodique III, MA

Prepared by:

SHENDY M. ACOSTA
Social Science Teacher

Approved by: Checked by:

EMILY A. BRINGAS SHEILA F. TABIAN, MAED

Academic Coordinator- Senior High School Department Principal