The Life and Works of Rizal

1st Semester, S.Y 2023 - 2024

COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE INFORMATION

COURSE CODE
COURSE TITLE The Life and Works of Rizal
COURSE CREDIT 3
CLASS HOURS 54
COURSE PREREQUISITE/
None
CO-REQUISITE
COURSE SCHEDULE

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 3. Set challenging goals and tasks with determination and sense of urgency which provide continuous improvement and producing quality
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

As mandated by Republic Act No. 1425, this course covers the life and works of the country’s national hero, Jose Rizal. Among the covered topics are Rizal’s biography and his writings, particularly the
novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, some of his essays, and various correspondences.

COURSE OUTCOMES

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1. Discuss Jose Rizal’s life within the context of 19th century Philippines
2. Analyze Rizal’s various works, particularly the novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
3. Organize Rizal’s ideas into various themes
4. Demonstrate a critical reading of primary sources
5. Interpret the values that can be derived from studying Jose Rizal’s life and works
6. Display an appreciation for education and love of country

COURSE LEARNING PLAN

Learning Activities
Course Learning Materials and
Learning Outcomes Topics Hours (Face-to-Face and Assessment
Outcome/s Platform
Remote Teaching)
Vision, Mission, Goals, Core Values of 1 Discuss the University vision and Student handbook (provided by Video
P8U, and classroom policies mission, the different school and the university) Presentation
class policies when having face
to face and remote learning Course guide and study guide
classes, and the content of the
syllabus and the course guide. MS Teams

CO 3, CO 4, 1. Explain the history of the Rizal Introduction to the Course: Republic 3 Comprehensive Reading: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
CO 5, CO 6 Law and its important provisions. Act 1425 RA 1425 downloaded using Google drive/
Laurel, J., The Trials of the Rizal MS Teams) Essay (Critical
2. Critically assess the Bill Thinking)
effectiveness of the Rizal Constantino, Rizal Law and the MS Teams
Course Catholic Hierarchy
Schumacher,The Rizal Bill of
1956

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CO 1, CO 4 1. Appraise the link between the
individual and society.
2. Analyze the various social,
political, economic, and cultural
changes that occurred in the
nineteenth century.
3. Understand Jose Rizal in the
context of his time
CO 1, CO 4, 1. Analyze Rizal’s family,
CO 5 childhood, and early education.
2. Evaluate the people and events
and their influence on Rizal’s early
life
CO 1, CO 4, 1. Explain the principle of
CO 5 assimilation advocated by the
Propaganda
2. Movement. Appraise Rizal’s
relationship with other
Propagandists.
3. Analyze Rizal’s growth as a
Propagandist and disavowal of
assimilation.
CO 1, CO 2, 1 .Analyze the factors that led to
CO 4, CO 5 Rizal’s execution.
2. Analyze the effects of Rizal’s
execution on Spanish colonial rule
and the Philippine Revolution
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The Philippines in the Nineteenth Century 5 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
in Rizal’s Context Brief summary of Spanish downloaded using Google drive/
colonization of the Philippines as MS Teams) Reflection Paper
Economic: end of the galleon trade, a background About the Film
opening of the Suez Canal, opening of The nineteenth century as a Video to be watched or
ports to world trade, rise of the export century of change downloaded online
crop economy, and Monopolies.
Film Viewing: Ganito Kami Noon, MS Teams
Social: education, rise of the Chinese Paano Kayo Ngayon?
mestizo, rise of the inquilino
Political: Liberalism, impact of the
Bourbon reforms, Cadiz constitution
Subtopic: seeing the life of an individual in
society and society in the life of an
individual
Rizal’s Life: Family, Childhood and Early 6 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
Education Rizal’s Family, Childhood, and downloaded using Google drive/
Early Education MS Teams) Paper(Essay)
Class Activity: Read Rizal’s MS Teams
“Memoirs of a Student in
Manila”
Rizal’s Life: Higher Education and Life 6 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
Abroad Rizal’s education at the Ateneo downloaded using Google drive/
Municipal and at the University MS Teams) Video
of Santo Tomas; Rizal’s life Presentation
abroad Video to be watched or
downloaded online
Class Activity: Watch Jose
Rizal: Sa Landas ng Paglaya MS Teams
(Listen to Rizal’s Brindis
Speech)
Rizal’s Life: Exile, Trial, and Death 5 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
Rizal’s last years covering his downloaded using Google drive/
exile, trial, and death MS Teams) Reflection paper
Film Viewing: about the film
Option 1: Jose Rizal, GMA Films, Video to be watched or
directed by Marilou Diaz Abaya downloaded online
4

1 .Analyze Rizal's ideas on how to
rewrite Philippine history.
2. Compare and contrast Rizal and
Morga’s different views about
Filipinos and Philippine culture
CO 1, CO 2, 1.Appraise important charact the erNsoinli Me Tangere
CO 4, CO 5 novel and what they represent.
2. Examine the present Philippine
situation through the examples
mentioned in the Noli.
CO 1, CO 2, 1. Compare and contrast the
CO 4, CO 5 characters, plot, and theme of the
Noli and the El Fili.
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Option 2: Rizal sa Dapitan, MS Teams
directed by Tikoy Aguiluz
Class Activity: Read Rizal’s last
letter to family members and
Blumentritt.
Midterm Examination 1
Annotation of Antonio Morga’s Sucesos de 6 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
las Islas Filipinas Annotation of Antonio Morga’s downloaded using Google drive/
Sucesos de las IslasFilipinas MS Teams) Paper(Essay)
Class Activity: Read the MS Teams
introduction and last chapter
of Rizal’s Annotation of
Antonio Morga’s Sucesos de
las Islas Pilipinas
6 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
Rizal’s representation of the downloaded using Google drive/
conditions and problems of MS Teams) Paper
Philippine society in the (Reflection)
nineteenth century through Noli Video to be watched or
Me Tangere background and downloaded online Or
publication of the Novel
MS Teams Tiktok
Major themes, plot, characters, presentation
and ideas in the novel.
Class Activity: Read Jose Rizal’s
Noli Me Tangere. Trans. Virgilio
Almario or Soledad Maximo
Locsin
Film Viewing: Noli Me Tangere
(1961)
El Filibusterismo 6 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
Background of the publication of downloaded using Google drive/
the El Filibusterismo. MS Teams) Paper
(Reflection)
MS Teams
Or
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2. Value the role of the youth in the
development and future of society
CO 1, CO 2, 1. Assess Rizal’s writings
CO 4, CO 5
2. Appraise the value of
understanding the past.
3. Frame arguments based on
evidence
CO 3, CO 5, 1. Interpret views and opinions
CO 6 about bayani and kabayanihan in
the context of Philippine history
and society.
2. Assess the concepts of bayani
and kabayanihan in the context
of Philippine society
CO 3, CO 5, 1. Examine the values highlighted by
CO 6 the various representations of Rizal
as a national symbol.
2. Advocate the values Rizal’s life
encapsulates
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Major themes, plot, characters,
and ideas in the novel. Graphic
Organizer
Class Activity: Read the dedication
to GomBurZa
Read
Rizal’s, El Filibusterismo, Trans,
by
Virgilio Almario or Soledad
Maximo Locsin
The Philippines: A Century Hence 3 Lecture: Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
The Philippines a Century Hence downloaded using Google drive/
(Other possible topics: MS Teams) Paper(Essay)
Letter to the Women of Malolos/ On Class Activity: Read Rizal’s On
the Indolence of the Filipinos the Indolence of the Filipinos/ MS Teams Or
The Philippine a Century Hence
Speech Presentation
Jose Rizal and Philippine Nationalism - 3 Lecture/Discussion on the Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
Bayani and Kabayanihan changing forms and definitions of downloaded using Google drive/
bayani and kabayanihan from MS Teams) Paper
precolonial Philippines to present (Reflection)
Video to be watched or
Film: downloaded online or Debate
Bayaning 3rd World
MS Teams
Jose Rizal and Philippine Nationalism - 2 Lecture: Criteria for national Readings in PDF Form (to be Quiz (Online)
National Symbol heroes as determined by the downloaded using google drive/
National Heroes Committee MS Teams) Paper
created by Executive Order No. (Reflection)
75, 1993. Video to be watched or
downloaded online
Class Activity: Read NCCA
Selection and Proclamation MS Teams
of National Heroes
Constantino, R. Our Task to Make
Rizal Obsolete
Film:
Bayaning 3rd World
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Final Examination 1

COURSE REFERENCES AND SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS

A. Books and E-books C. Electronic Sources

Almario. Virgilio. Si Rizal: Nobelista. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2008 C. Wright Mills. “The Promise,” The Sociological Imagination. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1959. http://legacy.lclark.edu/~gol
Anderson, Benedict. Why Counting Counts: A Study of Forms of Consciousness and Problems of Language in Noli Me dman/socimagination. Html
Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008
GMA News: l-Witness: Ang Lihim ng Pamilya ni Rizal 1 of 4
Blumentritt, Ferdinand. Prologue to Jose Rizal, Annotated Copy of Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmdBwXM5tbo
(Manila: National Centennial Commission, 1962)
GMA News: l-Witness: Ang Lihim ng Pamilya ni Rizal 2 of 4
Caroline S. Hau, “Introduction” in Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946-1980. Quezon City: Ateneo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqLF-5XpDo
de Manila University Press, 2000
GMA News: l-Witness: Ang Lihim ng Pamilya ni Rizal 3 of 4 https
Coates, Austin. Rizal: Filipino Nationalist and Martyr. Hong Kong: Oxford University Pres; Quezon City: Malaya Books, ://www. vo utu be. co m/watch ? v=P G U z V9 q 5 DI k
1969; or Filipino translation
GMA News: l-Witness: Ang Lihim ng Pamilya ni Rizal 4 of 4 https://www.
Constantino, Renato. The Making of a Filipino: A Story of Philippine Colonial Politics. QC: R. Constantino, 1982, youtube.com/watch?v=35vUv4DHOuw
pp. 244-247.
GMA News: l-Witness: Ang Mahiwagang Ngiti ni Rizal 2 of 4
Daroy, Petronilo. Rizal contrary essays. Quezon City: Guro Books, 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKLJzSnmAIY&t=131 s
lleto, Reynaldo. “Rizal and the Underside of Philippine History" In Filipinos and their Revolution: Event, Discourse, and
Historiography. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1998, pp. 29-78. GMA News: l-Witness: Ang Mahiwagang Ngiti ni Rizal 3 of 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ4EfKO6adk&t=26s
Jose B. Laurel Jr. “The Trials of the Rizal Bill,” Historical Bulletin vol. 4, no. 2(1960): 130-139.
GMA News: l-Witness: Ang Mahiwagang Ngiti ni Rizal 4 of 4
Manebog, J. et.al. 2018, Life and Works of Jose Rizal: Biography, Writing and Legacies of Our Bayani, Mutya Publishing https ://www .youtube, co m/watch?v=r1xltEVasxo
House, Inc. Malabon City, Philippines
National Historical Commission. Jose Rizal sa Landas ng Paglaya
Nilo S. Ocampo. Rizal: Makabayan at Martin Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2007. Ocampo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4 mB4mplY

Ambeth. “Rizal’s Morga and views of Philippine History" in Philippine Studies vol 46 no. 2 (1998). Republic Act 1425: Noli Me Tangere (1961): https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bBJW1 NRCDIg
www//gov.ph/1956/06/12/republic-act-no-1425
RA 1425: http ://www. gov. ph/1956/06/12/republic-act-no-1425/ Rizal Sa

Rizal, Jose. “Memoirs of a Student in Manila,’Appendix Section of Gregorio Zaide's Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings Dapitan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwSAXpXzAM

Rizal, Jose. Historical events of the Philippines Islands by Dr. Antonio de Morga, published in Mexico in 1609, recently Salazar, Zeus. “A Legacy of the Propaganda: The Tripartite View of Philippine
brought to light and annotated by Jose Rizal, preceded by a prologue by Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt. Manila: Jose Rizal History” in Atoy Navarro and Flordeliza Lagbao-Bolante, eds. Mga Babasahin sa
National Centennial Commission, 1962 Agham Panlipunang Pilipino:Sikolohiyang Pilipino,

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 Pilipinolohiya, at Pantayong Pananaw. QC: C&E Publishing, 2007.
Rizal, Jose. Noli Me Tangere. Trans. Virgilio Almario or Soledad Maximo Locsin http://www. bagongkasaysay an.org/downloadable/zeus 005.pdf Rizal,

Jose. El Filibusterismo. Trans. Virgilio Almario or Soledad Maximo Locsin

Rizal, Jose. “The Philippines, a century hence,” http://www.archive.org/stream/philiPDinescentuOOriza/

philippinescenuOOriza_djvu.txt

Rizal, Jose. On the Indolence of the Filipino People

Rizal, Jose. Historical events of the Philippines Islands by Dr. Antonio de Morga, published in Mexico in 1609, recently
brought to light and annotated by Jose Rizal, preceded by a prologue by Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt. Manila: Jose Rizal
National Centennial Commission, 1962

Salazar, Zeus. “A Legacy of the Propaganda: The Tripartite View of Philippine History” in Atoy Navarro and Flordeliza
Lagbao-Bolante, eds. Mga Babasahin sa Agham Panlipunang Pilipino: Sikolohiyang Pilipino, Pilipinolohiya, at Pantayong
Pananaw. QC: C&E Publishing, 2007. http://www. bagongkasaysay an.org/downloadable/zeus 005.pdf

Salazar, Zeus A. “Ang Bayani bilang sakripisyo: pag-aanyo ng pagkabayani sa agos ng kasaysayang Pilipino” in Kalamidad,
Rebolusyon, Kabayanihan: Mga kahulugan nito sa kasalukuyang panahon. QC: ADHIKA ng Pilipinas, 1996.

Schumacher, John. “Rizal in the Context of the 19th Century Philippines” in The Making of a Nation: Essays on
Nineteenth-Century Filipino Nationalism.Quezon City: ADMU Press, 1991.

Schumacher, John. The Propaganda Movement, 1880-1885: The Creation of a Filipino Consciousness, The Making of a
Revolution. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University

Schumacher, John. “The Rizal Bill of 1956. Horacio de la Costa and the Bishops," Philippine Studies 59 no. 4(2011): 529-
553.

Zaide, Gregorio and Zaide, Sonia. Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings of a Genius, Writer, Scientist and National Hero: Anvil
Publishing Inc., 2014
B. Journals/Magazines

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
• Midterm Final Examinations
• Quizzes
• Written reports, Activities, Reaction Papers, Position Papers and Projects
• Class participation

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 • Attendance during synchronous classes

ASSESSMENT AND GRADING

Midterm & Final Exam - 40%

Quizzes - 30%
Activities, Reaction Papers, Narrative Reports, etc. - 30%
Total -100%
MG (1/2) + FG(1/2) = TFG

COURSE POLICIES AND EXPECTATIONS

Lecture Class Policies (Online Class)
1. Wear a decent casual dress during web conference.
2. No foul words during online discussions.
3. Observe punctuality and courtesy
4. Private conversations during web conferencing are not allowed.
5. Always open the phone or laptop camera during synchronous classes
6. Respect shall be observed by the teacher and students
7. Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated.
8. A deduction will be given to activities submitted late
9. Quiz will be announce a week before the quiz date and students will be reminded on the week of the quiz, no special quiz will be given.

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CHERYL C. MENDOZA, JD, PhD ]CHERYL C. MENDOZA, PhD Ma. THERESA MACALTAO, PhD IAN D. EVANGELISTA, DBA.

Faculty Department Chairperson College Dean Campus Executive Director

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