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Course Outline Social Studies (Philippine History and Government) Unit I: The Genesis of a People 1.

The Discipline of a History 2. The origin of the Archipelago 3. the National territory of the Philippines 4. Regionalization and Ethnolinguistic Groups in the Philippines 5. The Natural Resources of the Philippines 6. Environmental Issues in the Philippines 7. The Human Resources of the Philippines 8. The first People in the Philippines and the Austronesian migration 9. Barangay as an Ancient Community 10. Spread of Islam and other foreign Influences Unit II: The Formation of a Nation 1. Start of Spanish Colonialism 2. The establishment of a colonial government and the threats against it 3. The colonial economy before the 19th century 4. Changes in society and culture 5. the Unconquered Filipinos 6. The revolts against Spain 7. Various events in the 19th century 8. reform and revolution 9. First phase of the Philippine Revolution 10. Philippine revolution: Second phase 11. The intensification of the Filipino - American War and the results of the hostilities Unit III. The Establishment of a State 1. The United States and the Suppression of the Filipino nationalism 2. Filipinization policy and political developments 3. free trade and taxation policies 4. Social and cultural changes 5. Towards Philippine Independence and the independence mission 6. Commonwealth and the path to independence 7. Persistence and liberation 8. Period of restoration 9. Administration of Roxas to Magsaysay 10. Administration of Garcia to Marcos 11. The Philippines under Martial Law 12. Restoration of Democracy 13. Culture towards the advancement of democracy 14. Administration of Aquino to Arroyo

Unit IV: Government of the Citizentry 1. The state and the Constitution 2. Citizenship 3. The Government and its Branches 4. The Constitutional Commissions and the local government 5. Foreign Relations Reference: Philippine Civilization: History and Government By Boncan, Ong, Jose, Ponsaran

Course Outline Social Studies II (Asian Civilization) Unit I. Geography of Asia 1. The concept of Asia 2. Physical Geography 3. Natural Resources of Asia 4. Environmental Problems and Ecological balance in Asia 5. Ethnolinguistic groups in Asia 6. Human Development 7. Human resources of Asia Unit II. Ancient Civilizations of Asia 1. Biological Evolution in Asia 2. Cultural Evolution in Asia 3. Early Civilizations in Asia 4. Kingship and Political Ideas on Empire building in traditional Asia 5. Asia in the Ancient Period: East and North Asia 6. Asia in the Ancient Period: South Asia 7. Asia in the Ancient Period: South East Asia 8. Asia in the Ancient Period: South and west Asia 9. Religions and Philosophies of Asian People 10. Women in traditional Asia 11. The Legacy of the Ancient Asian Civilization Unit III. Asia in Different Periods: Transitional and Modern Asia 1. First Stage of western imperialism 2. Second stage of western imperialism 3. Asian countries that escaped western colonization 4. Effects of western colonialism and colonialism in Asia 5. Asian Nationalism 6. Asia and the World Wars -World War I -World War II Unit IV: Asia in the Contemporary Period 1. Government and political systems in Asia 2. Women in Contemporary Asia 3. The Primacy of education to Asians 4. Religion and culture in Asia 5. The Current State of the Asian economy 6. Trade, Culture and development in contemporary Asia 7. Issues and problems in the Philippines due to changes in Asia 8. Diseases in Asia 9. Challenges of the times population and urbanization concerns References: Asian Civilization: History and culture By Mateo, Jose, Camagay, Miranda and Boncan

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