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Faculty
Conference on Proposed Curricular Revisions
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April 2008 ---
Faculty members of the UP School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP)
convened for the School’s faculty conference, which was held from
April 7 – 9 at the Mimosa Montevista Villas in Clarkfield, Pampanga.
The main objectives of the faculty conference included improving the
School’s academic offerings and drawing up a curricular proposal to
reintroduce the fields of specialization.
The latest faculty
conference also served as the venue for the review and evaluation of
SURP’s curricular offerings. This review/evaluation is performed
periodically in order to ensure that the curriculum remains relevant
to contemporary social issues, the planning profession, employment
potential, students’ personal growth, and the mandates and thrusts of
both the School and the University.
During the said
conference, it was agreed that improving the School’s academic
offerings may be accomplished via: revising course contents and
objectives, tightening academic requirements, abolishing redundant or
obsolete courses, consolidating closely-related courses, instituting
new courses, improving teaching performance, upgrading institutional
resources, and more efficiently utilizing the budget.
After discussions,
the following curricular revisions were agreed upon: the School’s
graduate programs will have the following six (6) core courses (a
total of 20 units): Plan 201, 203, 214, 219, 210, and 210.1; while
each field of specialization course for the MA (Urban and Regional
Planning) program will have nine (9) units each. The MA URP Plan A
(thesis option) will then have a total of 35 units (20 units of core
courses, nine units of field of specialization courses, and six units
from Plan 300/Master’s Thesis); while the MA URP Plan B (non-thesis
option) will have 41 units of course requirements (20 units of core
courses, nine units of field of specialization courses, nine units of
cognate courses, and three units from a special problems course). The
Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning program will still consist of
26 units, composed of 20 units of core courses and six (6) units of
field of specialization courses.
It was also
agreed that the SURP fields of specialization will be: Public Works
and Transportation Planning; Estate Planning; and Environmental and
Natural Resource Planning and Management. The faculty focused on
developing the course outlines and basic contents for these three
fields. In addition, a proposal will be prepared for a “Social
Services Planning” field of specialization. The faculty will package
the above agreements for submission to the University Curricular
Committee.
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Congress to act on
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House
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THE House of
Representatives, spearheaded by Speaker
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ultimate enactment of a National Land Use
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Macapagal-Arroyo had just signed into law
today at the UP Cebu campus in Cebu City --
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Agusan del Sur,
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potentially disastrous to their tightly knit
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