This course discusses and analyzes the concept of social planning, its main principles, and the objectives and purposes it aims to achieve. This course tackles the development of the social planning concept, its various phases, types, levels, and priorities. On another hand, this course explains the process of implementing social plans, the problems emanating thereof, the possibility of mitigating their effects or overcoming such problems, a step also known as strategic planning. In addition to the aforementioned, this course explores the topics of planning and development, as well as some of its examples excerpted from the Arab world.