Timeframe Course Content/Subject Matter

WEEK 1 ORIENTATION

1. Vision, mission, goals and objectives and core values of the

university.
2. Grading System
3. University Policies
4. Course Outline
5. Course Requirements
WEEK 2-4 I. INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY: DEFINITION, ISSUES,
SOURCES, AND METHODOLOGY

1. Definition of History
2. Nature of History
3. History and other Field of Social Sciences
4. Relevance of History
5. Questions and issues in History
6. History and Historians
7. Historical Sources
7.1 Primary Sources
7.2 Secondary Sources
8. Internal and External Criticism
WEEK 5-8 II. CONTENT AND CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF
SELECTED PRIMARY SOURCES IN PHILIPPINE
HISTORY

1. A Brief Summary of the First Voyage around the World by

Magellan by Antonio Pigafetta (16th Century)
2. The KKK and the “Kartilya ng Katipunan”
3. Reading the “Proclamation of the Philippine Independence”
4. A Glance at Selected Philippine Political Caricature in Alfred
McCoy’s Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of
American Era (1900-1941)
5. Revisiting Corazon Aquino’s Speech Before the U.S.
Congress

WEEK 9 MIDTERM EXAMINATION

WEEK 10-12 III. PHILIPPINE HISTORY: SPACES FOR CONFLICT AND
CONTROVERSIES

1. Making Sense of the Past: Historical Interpretation

1.1 The Code of Kalantiaw
1.2 “Sa Aking mga Kabata”
2. Multiperspectivity
2.1 Case Study 1: Site of the First Mass
2.2 Case Study 2: Cavite Mutiny
2.3 Case Study 2: Cavite Mutiny
2.4 Case Study 3: Did Rizal Retract?
2.5 Case Study 4: Where Did the Cry of Rebellion
Happen?

WEEK 13-15 I. SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL

ISSUES IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

1. Evolution of the Philippine Constitution

1.1 1897: Constitution of Biak-na-Bato
1.2 1899: Malolos Constitution
1.3 1935: The Commonwealth Constitution
1.4 1973: Constitutional Authoritarianism
1.5 1987: Constitution After Martial Law
2. Changing the Constitution
2.1 Federalism