First Semester AY 2024-2025

This course deals with nature of mathematics, appreciation of its practical, intellectual, and aesthetic dimensions, and applications of mathematical tools in daily life. The course begins with an introduction to the nature of mathematics as an exploration of pattern (in nature and the environment) and as an application of inductive and deductive reasoning. By exploring these topics, students are encourage to go beyond the typical understanding of mathematics as merely set of formulas but as a source of aesthetics in patterns of nature, for example, and a rich language in itself (and of science) governed by logic and reasoning.

This course deals with nature of mathematics, appreciation of its practical, intellectual, and aesthetic dimensions, and applications of mathematical tools in daily life. The course begins with an introduction to the nature of mathematics as an exploration of pattern (in nature and the environment) and as an application of inductive and deductive reasoning. By exploring these topics, students are encourage to go beyond the typical understanding of mathematics as merely set of formulas but as a source of aesthetics in patterns of nature, for example, and a rich language in itself (and of science) governed by logic and reasoning.

This course then proceeds to survey ways in which mathematics provides a tool for understanding and dealing with various aspects of present-day living, such as managing personal finances, making social choices, appreciating geometric designs, understanding codes used in data transmission and security, and dividing limited resources fairly. These aspects will provide opportunities of actual doing mathematics in a broad range of exercises that bring out various dimensions of mathematics as a way of knowing, and test the students’ understanding and capacity.

 The course is designed to introduce the students to the basic principles and concepts of entrepreneurship and its importance especially in the Philippine setting. Further, the characteristics of entrepreneurs, how to start a new enterprise and analysis of courses and problems appealing SME’s are discussed and conducted.

Study of crop production practices in this area by actually planting, growing, harvesting and marketing.

This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental principles underlying the practical applications

 and practices of horticulture. 

This course will cover introduction to basic accounting within the context of agri-business and business decisions. It will explore the development of accounting information and the use of various types of  accounting information found in financial statements and annual reports. It will emphasize what accounting information is, why it is important and how it is used by economic decision makers. Specifically, it will cover introduction to business and decision making, basic structure and development of useful accounting information, understanding the basic financial statements cash (balance sheet, income statement, statement of owner’s equity, and statement of cash flows) forms of outside assurance on financial statements; and analysis of accounting information.