St.

Peter’s College
Sabayle St., Iligan City

College of Arts and Sciences

Vision
A world-class private non-stock, non-sectarian university serving the nation through its
holistic stakeholders.
Mission
To produce competent graduates by providing quality education
Institutional Objectives
Integral to the attainment of its mission, St. Peter’s College commits itself to:

A. Give satisfaction to its clientele by affecting performance measures for transparent and
balanced resource management.
B. Offer motivation to the globally competitive stakeholders by providing quality instruction
and conducting relevant research as effective mechanisms.
C. Serve for the holistic development of students by offering balanced curricular and co-
curricular programs and by providing them appropriate teaching-learning
environment.
D. Provide programs for people empowerment by undertaking continuous promotion and
implementation of sustainable extension programs.
E. Care to support development plans, programs, and projects of the Institution by making
effective use of the constituent’s entrepreneurial skills, and information and
communication technology as learning tools and as a means for income generating
projects.

Third World LiteratureSyllabus

Engl A14- Third World Literature(Afro-Asian)(Lecture)

Name of Faculty: ______________________ Schedule: ______________Rm #______
A. Course Description
The course is a survey of the major literary pieces of literature from Third World countries. It
will comprise both traditional and contemporary types to give students a deeper understanding
of Third World texts in a world where First World Western literature predominates.

Credit Unit: 3 units

Pre-requisite:
B. Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to: 1) Appreciate important literary texts from
Africa, Asia, Latin America; 2) Expose a range of post-colonial issues in literature; 3)
Comprehend how history, culture, and society are reflected in literature; 4) Encourage an
appreciation of Asian, African, and Latin America literature using non-Western categories; 5)
Promote sympathetic and unbiased understanding towards other nations; 6) Develop a better
understanding of the culture, history of other third world countries.

C. Course Outline and Timeframe

Week Topic
1 Hebrew literature and the Bible
2-3 Egyptian literature
4 PRELIM EXAM
5 Perso-Arabic literature
6-8 Indian literature
9 MIDTERM EXAM
10 Chinese literature
11 Korean literature
12 Japanese literature
13 SEMI-FINAL EXAM
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College of Arts and Sciences

14-15 Indonesian and Malayan literature

16 Peninsular Southeast Asian literature (Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese
literature)
17 African literature
18 FINAL EXAM

D. Required Reading
 Duka, Carolina R. (2001). The Literature of Asia and Africa. Manila: Rex Bookstore Inc.

E. Suggested Reading and Reference

Duka, Carolina R. (2001).The Literature of Asia and Africa. Manila: Rex Bookstore Inc.

F. Course Requirements
 Students will be expected to be an active participant, preferably working alongside other
students, especially when it comes to analysing text extracts.
 Students will write a term paper (stylistic analysis on texts) using the tools they learn
from the class sessions.
 Students are required to submit tree diagram analysis on sentences using technical
syntactic terms.

G. Grading System
Cumulative Average System

There shall be four (4) grading periods: Prelim Term Grade (PG), Midterm Grade (MG), Pre-
Final Term Grade (PFG), and Final Term Grade (FG) leading to student’s Final Cumulative
Grade in consonance with the class report of the faculty concerned as follows:

 Midterm Cumulative Grade= ( PG + MG ) ÷ 2

 Pre-final Cumulative Grade= ( Midterm Cumulative Grade + PFG ) ÷ 2
 Final Cumulative Grade= ( Pre-final Cumulative Grade + FG ) ÷ 2 or
Final Cumulative Grade= (12.5%) PG + (12.5%) MG + (25%) PFG + (50%) FG

 Each student is expected to participate in all class involvement shown below:

o Attendance of class interactions--------------------10%
o Assignments/Projects/Paper Reports-------------15%
o Oral Recitation-------------------------------------------20%
- Individual/Group Oral Report
o Quizzes/Exercises/ Seatwork------------------------20%
o Major exams----------------------------------------------35%
Total--100%

H. Classroom Policies

 Based on CHED policy, total number of absences by the students should not be
more than 20% of the total number of meetings or nine (9) hours for a three-unit
course. Student’s incurring more than nine hours of unexcused absences
automatically gets a failing grade regardless of the class standing.
 Instructors are under no obligation to re-teach material that has already been
taught in a regularly scheduled class.
 Students are required to provide at least ONE WEEK prior notice in writing
(preferably earlier) of their intention to absent themselves.
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Sabayle St., Iligan City

College of Arts and Sciences

 Opportunity will be provided for students to make up work or examinations

missed without penalty.

I. Consultation Hours

To be determined.

Prepared by:

Jesel Mae N. Ventic

English Instructor

Noted by: Approved by:

Miller A. Garganera Flordeline A. Cadeliňa, DTE

Acting Dean, CAS EO-Academic Affairs