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COURSE OVERVIEW
Course Course
Course No. GE-LWR Course Title The Life and Works of Jose Rizal None 3 units
Prerequisite Credit
The Life and Works of Jose Rizal will examine the origins of the Filipino nation through a multidisciplinary analysis of the rise of Philippine nationalism in the
nineteenth century. The course will first attempt to explain the historical factors that produced Jose Rizal and his generation of nationalists through an analysis
Course
of the socio-economic developments both in the context of Philippine and World History. The content and context of the major works of Jose Rizal will be
Description
analyzed to demonstrate how literature was essential in the imagination and construction of the Filipino nation. Lastly, Rizal’s contributions will be assessed for
its continuing significance and uneasy paradoxes
COURSE OUTPUTS
As evidence of the above outcome, the course output is:
1. Historical Narrative
COURSE POLICIES
1. All students must activate their official USC email address. Personal email shall be indicated as the recovery email of their USC accounts.
2. The student’s USC email address shall be used all throughout the semester. No personal email will be allowed. The same shall be used in accessing the following, at the very least:
a. Canvas Learning Management System
b. Google Meet as the official online conferencing platform
c. Group Chat as medium for inquiries
3. Academic Integrity Policies
4. Consultation shall be done on the designated hours
5. Things to remember in the conduct of synchronous sessions
a. Wear Decent Attire
b. Coming on time
c. A conducive learning Space devoid of noise and other possible distractions
6. Things to remember in the conduct of asynchronous sessions
a. Check canvas regularly for updates, assignments or quizzes
b. Submit all activities required in this session on time
GRADING SYSTEM
The Life and Works of Jose Rizal will examine the origins of the Filipino nation through a multidisciplinary analysis of the rise of Philippine nationalism in the
nineteenth century. The course will first attempt to explain the historical factors that produced Jose Rizal and his generation of nationalists through an analysis
Course
of the socio-economic developments both in the context of Philippine and World History. The content and context of the major works of Jose Rizal will be
Description
analyzed to demonstrate how literature was essential in the imagination and construction of the Filipino nation. Lastly, Rizal’s contributions will be assessed for
its continuing significance and uneasy paradoxes
COURSE OUTPUTS
As evidence of the above outcome, the course output is:
2. Historical Narrative
COURSE COVERAGE
Flexible Teaching-
Course Unit
Hours Topic Objectives Learning Options or Assessment Resources / Materials
Outcome Outcome Activities
As evidence of achieving
At the end of the At the end of the
In order to achieve the outcome, the To achieve the outcome, the the unit outcome, the
course, the learner module, the learner
learner is able to: learning activities are learner is assessed as
is able to: is able to:
follows::
I. Preliminaries: Course
Orientation; USC’s Mission-
Construct a (9 Explain Vision; Institutional Outcome;
specific nationalism and SAS & DGEM’s Mission and
hours) MODULE I: The Rizal
narratives of Filipino Vision
Republic of the Philippines. 1956. Republic Act 1425.
Law and Philippine nationalism in the Available online, http://www.gov.ph/ 1956/06/12/republic-
Filipino-ness act-no-1425/.
on different Nationalism: context of world
history Formative Quiz : Laurel, Jose B. Jr. 1960. The trials of the Rizal Bill.
periods of Essay Type Historical Bulletin 4(2): 130–39.
Philippine
history through 1. Examine the
A.RA 1425 Asynchronous: Constantino, Renato. 1969. The Rizal Law and the
an analysis of content of the Rizal Catholic hierarchy. In The making of a Filipino: A story of
1.Reading Assignment Philippine colonial politics, 244–47. Quezon City: The
various media. Law as well as the
Author.
historical
2.Pair/Group discussions
circumstances of the
Ileto, Reynaldo. 2017. History Wars: Rizal in 1956.
law’s promulgation Knowledge and Pacification: On the US Conquest and
2. Assess the Synchronous: the Writing of Philippine History, 225-242. Quezon City.
competing arguments Ateneo de Manila University Press.
1.Video Conferencing
of the Catholic Church
and the “Second through Google Meeting
Propaganda
Movement
Flexible Teaching-
Course Unit
Hours Topic Objectives Learning Options or Assessment Resources / Materials
Outcome Outcome Activities
B. Literature and Society Elaborate on the continuing role Asynchronous: Hau, Caroline S. 2000. Introduction. In
of literature, specifically the Reflection Paper Necessary fictions: Philippine literature and the
novels of Rizal in conjuring and based on the Guide nation, 1946–1980, 1–14. Quezon City: Ateneo
re-making the imagined 1.Reading Assignment de Manila University Press.
Questions ( by pair
community of the nation
2.Recorded Lecture: or 3 members) Constantino, Renato. 1966. Our task: To make
Students can listen to the Rizal obsolete. In The Filipinos in the
lecture at their own pace Philippines and other essays, 137–52.
Asynchronous:
1. Reading Assignment
D. Rizal and Popular
Ileto, Reynaldo. 1998. Bernardo Carpio:
Flexible Teaching-
Course Unit
Hours Topic Objectives Learning Options or Assessment Resources / Materials
Outcome Outcome Activities
Nationalism Filipinos and their revolution: Event, discourse, and
historiography,. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila
2.Watching Documentary University Press.
Video “ Santo Rizal“ by
Lourd De Veyra Video: WOTL_ Santo Rizal
3. Seatwork
Synchronous: Interactive
Class Discussion where
students can ask questions
based from the reading
PREMID EXAM assignment and the video
B .Construct a timeline
highlighting the important events
of Rizal’s 1st Journey to Europe
A. Calam
ba and the C. Explain the ilustrado’s ‘turn to
Rizal Family journalism’ to serve their
newfound political aims
4. Graphic
Organizer Making ‘
by Group
1.Formative Quiz
E. Revolu
tion and
Millenarian
Visions
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Final
Module 5 TLA December 10/11
Summative Assessment Between December 14-19
Submission of the historical December 19
Narrative
REFERENCES
Anderson, Benedict. 2006. Under three flags: Anarchism and the anti-colonial imagination,. Pasig City: Anvil ( Selected Chapters)
Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism,. Rev. ed. London and New York: Verso. Pasig City: Anvil.
Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism,. Rev. ed. London and New York: Verso. Pasig City: Anvil.(Selected Chapters)
Hau, Caroline S. 2000. Necessary fictions: Philippine literature and the nation, 1946–1980,. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Ileto, Reynaldo. 1979. Pasyon and revolution: Popular movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910,. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Ileto, Reynaldo. 1998. In Filipinos and their revolution: Event, discourse, and historiography,. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Rizal, José. 1961 [1890]. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas por el Doctor Antonio de Morga, obra publicada en Méjico el año de 1609 nuevamente sacada a luz y anotada (Events of the Philippine Islands by Dr. Antonio de
Morga, published in Mexico in 1609 recently brought to light and annotated). Manila: José Rizal National Centennial Commission. DS674 M83 1961; ENGLISH VERSION: [Read “To the Filipinos” (p. vii) and Rizal’s
annotations in Chap. 8]
Rizal, José. 1890/1996. Sobre la indolencia de los filipinos / On the indolence of Filipinos. In La Solidaridad, vol. 2: 1890, trans. Guadalupe Fores-Ganzon, 322–27, 340–45, 362–69. Pasig City:
Fundación Santiago.
Rizal, José. 1996. Noli me tángere, trans. Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin. Makati: Bookmark. PQ8897 R5 N531 1996 [Dedication, Epilogue, and all chapters]
Rizal, José. 1997. El Filibusterismo, trans. Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin. Makati: Bookmark. PQ8897 R5 N531 1996 [Dedication, Epilogue, and all chapters
Rizal, José. 1961. Rizal to Blumentritt, Dapitan, 15 February 1893. The Rizal-Blumentritt Correspondence, vol. 2, part 2,. Manila: José Rizal National Centennial Commission
Roth, Dennis M. 1982. Philippine social history: Global trade and local transformations, ed. Alfred W. McCoy and Ed. de Jesus,. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila
University Press.
Schumacher, John. 1997. The propaganda movement: 1880–1895; The creators of a Filipino consciousness, the makers of the revolution,. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Required Films/Videos:
Kuwentong Chinoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NgbHd9SSMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WMmu818JuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ASs3mXVbz4 ( Imagined Communities P.1.flv)
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Complete Name Edith A. Labana
E-mail ealabana@usc.edu.ph
Contact No. 0922 251 3585
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perform my obligations and submit all requirements with utmost academic honesty and integrity. I commit to proactively engage myself in the entire learning process and aim to become an
evidence-based lifelong learner steering governance. With diligence, I shall keep this document and be guided accordingly until the end of course.
Aug .05,
Edith A. Labana 2020 Approved DR. ELIZABETH M. REMEDIO Aug 05 2020
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