Undergraduate
The Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance (DSFFG) offers the following academic courses under the College of Forestry and Natural Resources (CFNR) undergraduate programs:
Bachelor of Science in Forestry
Associate of Science in Forestry
Bachelor of Science in Forestry
| Course Code | Course Title | Course description | Course credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| SFFG 101 | Principles and Concepts of Social Forestry | Rationale for and approaches in social forestry and its application for the local community development. | 3 |
| SFFG 111 | Forest Conservation | Approaches to forest conservation; socio-cultural economic factor affecting it. | 3 |
| SFFG 112 | Program Planning | Formulation of programs of public forestry education for the use of extension agents and adult education workers. | 3 |
| SFFG 113 | Forestry Extension | Theories and practices in extension education as applied to forestry; analysis of forestry extension programs in the Philippines. | 3 |
| SFFG 120 | Environmental and Natural Resource Worldviews | Introduction to the philosophical dimensions of human-habitat relationships; Western, oriental, and indigenous Filipino worldviews about the environment and forests; and political-economic dimensions of environmentalism within the realities of Philippine society. | 3 |
| SFFG 123 | Forest Policy and Institutions | Study of policies and institutions involved in forest management and development in the Philippines. | 3 |
| SFFG 125 | Political Economy and Administration of Forestry Development | Concepts, theories, processes and ethics, and survey and analysis of policies and institutions involved in the interactions between the state and forestry development. | 3 |
| SFFG 133 | Socio-Economics of Agroforestry | Socio-economic principles underlying the management of agroforestry establishments. | 3 |
| SFFG 141 | Formal Organizations in SF | Formal forestry organizations implementing social forestry programs in the Philippines and in other tropical countries; approaches to organizational design and change, its application to social forestry. | 3 |
| SFFG 149 | Gender Analysis and Planning | Gender analysis and planning methods, implications for national development with emphasis on agriculture, forestry, and natural resources. | 3 |
| SFFG 150 | Production and Conservation Technologies in Social Forestry | Concepts, identification, characterization, applicability analysis, and practical evaluation of appropriate production and conservation technologies in Social Forestry. | 3 |
| NRC 150 | Forest-based Rural Industries | Nature, type, structure of forest resource-based rural industries; role in promoting social forestry; strategies to promote their development. | 3 |
| SFFG 152 | Sociology of Natural Resources | Relationship between social structure and natural resources; application of sociological theories and findings to problems of natural resource development. | 3 |
| SFFG 155 | Social Equity Issues in SF | Social equity issues in forestry with emphasis on social structure, land tenure, and gender. | 3 |
| SFFG 163 | Anthropological Concepts for Social Forestry | Application of anthropological concepts to an understanding of ethnic groups in relation to forestry. | 3 |
| SFFG 182 | Rural Institutions for Forestry and Natural Resources Development | Concepts and processes of institution building in forest communities with emphasis on the dynamic role of institutions in participatory forest and natural resources management. | 3 |
| SFFG 190 | Special Problems | Maybe taken twice provided that total number of units to be credited to the student’s program will not exceed four (4) units. | (1-3) |
| SFFG 191 | Special Topics. | (1-3) | |
| SFFG 197 | Anthropological Research Methods in Forestry | Anthropological research methods and techniques relevant to the concerns of forestry and other natural resources development, with special emphasis on the study of culture-environment interactions. | 3 |
| SFFG 199 | Undergraduate Seminar | May be taken twice. Seminar on various topics in Social Forestry. | 1 |
| FOR 198 | Internship | 3 | |
| FOR 200 | Undergraduate Thesis | State of the art research, process documentation, evaluation study, feasibility study, case study, social survey research, and related researches in social forestry. | 6 |
| FOR 200a | Undergraduate Practicum in Social Forestry | Unsupervised field immersion and analysis of social forestry/community-based strategies to promote their development. | 6 |
Associate of Science in Forestry
| Course Code | Course Title | Course description | Course credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| SFFG 101 | Principles and Concepts of Social Forestry | Rationale for and approaches in social forestry and its application for the local community development. | 3 |
| SFFG 113 | Forestry Extension | Theories and practices in extension education as applied to forestry; analysis of forestry extension programs in the Philippines. | 3 |
| SFFG 123 | Forest Policy and Institutions | Study of policies and institutions involved in forest management and development in the Philippines. | 3 |
| SFFG 180 | Organizing Forest-Dependent Communities | introduction and application of theories, concepts, strategies, and tools for effective forest conservation and development of forest communities. | 3 |