SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Transforming Society

Equipping individuals and communities with perspectives and skills for local, national, and global transformation, in the Jesuit tradition of excellence, service, and the promotion of justice

Body

The Ateneo School of Social Sciences is the largest of the five Loyola Schools in terms of student population, faculty members, and the number of academic departments, academic programs, and research/outreach centers. 

Its student body constitutes about a third of the total undergraduate student population, and almost half of the total graduate student population of the university.
It has six academic departments, six academic programs, and eight centers with 30 graduate programs, 15 undergraduate programs, 14 minor programs, and several extramural Asian language courses. Delivering these undergraduate and graduate programs and courses are 122 full-time and 219 part-time faculty members. Seven out of ten full-time faculty members and one in every four part-time faculty members are PhD-degree holders. Moreover, one in five ranked faculty members are Full Professors or Professor Emeriti.

SOSS News & Features

Departments & Programs

Social Science Building
Chinese Studies
Magisterial Lecture taping at Hyundai Hall, Arete
Communication
LS classroom
Development Studies
Migratory egret on campus
Japanese Studies
Path between RL and SOH
Korean Studies
University Road
Political Science
Loyola Heights campus in the morning, December 2021
Sociology and Anthropology

Events

Workshop / Seminar / Short Course

Preferences and WTP for RE using Choice Experiment

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

Online

Registration Links: February 8: https://bit.ly/MikeBrock February 22: https://bit.ly/StefaniaParedesFuentes March 15...

Workshop / Seminar / Short Course

Nihongo for Everyone Cycle 2

Sat, 15 Apr 2023

Online

Ateneo de Manila University Japanese Studies Program is now accepting...

Workshop / Seminar / Short Course

Dimensions of Job Polarization in the Philippines

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Online

Registration Links: February 8: https://bit.ly/MikeBrock February 22: https://bit.ly/StefaniaParedesFuentes March 15...

Academic Conference

4th Sociology & Anthropology Undergraduate Student Research Conference | Experiences, Entanglements & Understanding of the Social

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

SOM 210, JGSOM Building, Loyola Heights campus

School of Social Sciences, Ateneo Department of Sociology and Anthropology...

Lecture

A Lecture on Philippine Epics | A night long lasting song…

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

Faber 302

Anthropological and Sociological Initiatives of the Ateneo (ASIA) and the...

Fair / Festival

JSP Week 2023

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

Loyola Schools Campus

In celebration of SOSS Month 2023 the Ateneo Japanese Studies...

Live Event / Performance

Mandopop Music Festival Season 4

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Bellarmine Field, Ateneo de Manila University Loyola Heights campus

Mandopop Music Festival Season 4 Music can be a universal...

Academic Conference

5th LS Graduate Research Festival

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Online

The LS Graduate Research Festival provides graduate students with the...

Workshop / Seminar / Short Course

Redistributive Policy Shocks and Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

Online

Registration Links: February 8: https://bit.ly/MikeBrock February 22: https://bit.ly/StefaniaParedesFuentes March 15...

Lecture

Innovations in Healthcare and Governance Webinar Series

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

Zoom Webinar Live

The National Health Service Consortium for Global Health (NHSC), British...

Thesis / Dissertation Defense

Breaking the Ceiling: The Lived Experiences of Senior High School Female Student Leaders in a Former Exclusive School for Boys (Towards a Gender-Fair Leadership Development Program)

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

Online

Dissertation defense of Socorro Perpetual F. Esguerra-Escarez, PhD in Leadership...