Social awareness is the ability to understand and feel the people around you, as well as interact with them in the most effective and appropriate ways. Social awareness is one of the four main components of emotional intelligence which can broadly be studied by approachability, curiosity, empathy, active listening, and non-judgemental attitude. Despite being technically competent due to their early exposure to the digital world, Gen-Z college students nevertheless struggle to be emotionally resilient and survive the corporate environment. This paper focuses on each social awareness aspect that students can learn through extracurricular activities. This study uses primary data from 400 students through convenient sampling techniques to understand the social awareness that college students have attained from various extracurricular activities. The data set showed a significant Cronbach Alpha reliability test result of .70 and above. The study has proven that the gender of the students affects their choice of extracurricular activities. Five out of the thirty-four elements were extracted using exploratory factor analysis. All five components were subjected to logistic regression analysis. It was discovered that students who are open-minded, empathic, active listeners, and approachable are 1.331, 1.880, 1.224, and 1.275 times more likely to be socially aware respectively.

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Keywords: Social Awareness, Extracurricular Activities, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Relationships.