ENGL 11: PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION
Purposive Communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative and rhetorical competence through multimodal tasks suited to a multilingual and multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. Following a process-oriented approach to teaching communication, it offers extensive language use and practice and promotes opportunities for problem sensing and problem solving. Students are provided different venues to apply knowledge of rhetoric in creating communication materials that address real-world issues.
ENLIT 12: LITERATURE: GLOBAL VOICES & ENCOUNTERS
A prolific body of literature exists depicting the drama of global encounters where different cultures and perspectives play out the dynamics of conflict and search for human understanding.
This course surveys representative texts in poetry, fiction, and drama, revealing important facets of global society through cultural diversity, conflict resolution, and dialogical interaction. With close attention to genre conventions and various literary modes, students survey a range of global cultural traditions and ideas in view of honoring cultural diversity, expanding personal horizons, and fostering global citizenship.
ENE 13.xx : INTERDISCIPLINARY ELECTIVE-ENGLISH
This is an interdisciplinary course that develops the students' awareness and understanding of the many forms, contexts, perspectives and rhetorical power of narrative. Through the critical reading of particular texts that address or cut across the interests of several disciplines, students will be able to integrate and synthesize different perspectives in the accomplishment of critical and interactive projects which are based on real-world issues and geared towards rhetorical competence and service for others.
ENGL 11 and ENLIT 12 are prerequisites to this course. A student may choose from any of the electives below, including from their own school:
ENE 13.03i Story and Narrative in the Humanities
ENE 13.04i Story and Narrative in Management
ENE 13.05i Story and Narrative in Science and Engineering
ENE 13.06i Story and Narrative in the Social Sciences
Undergrad Electives
1st Semester SY 2022-2023
ENLIT 31: LITERATURES OF THE WESTERN WORLD I: EUROPE
Section L - TF 1100-1230, Ms. Ma. Gabriela Martin
Section B - MTH 0930-1100, Dr. Rica Remedios Santos
This course is a survey of the literature of the Western World produced between the 10th century BC and the late 17th century, including representative poetry, drama, prose fiction, and nonfiction from the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
ENLIT 71: LITERATURES OF THE PHILIPPINES I: REGION AND NATION
Section B - MTH 0930-1100, Ms. Annette Soriano
Section K - TF 0930-1100, Mr. Glenn Diaz
This course is a survey course that covers literature from the preHispanic period to the present. It focuses on the literature and culture from different regions and their intersection with the nation and the globe. The course deploys historiography, comparative discourses, and cultural studies lens.
ENLIT 81 : POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES I: AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Section E - MTH 1400-1530, Dr. Charlie Veric
Section N - TF 1400-1530, Ms. Regina Carmeli Regala
This course studies literary works and traditions from what used to be called the Third and Fourth Worlds: developing nations and indigenous communities. ENLIT 81 focuses on themes and concerns specific to the regions of Africa and the Middle East, as can be read from select ancient texts, literary and cultural texts from the colonial and postcolonial/contemporary period, and theoretical writings. This course on postcolonial critical theory covers (but is not limited to) these topics: representations of the “ orient, ” decolonization, nationalist movements, language politics, identity politics, postmodernism, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.
ENLIT 91: WORLD LITERATURES I: GENEALOGIES AND TRANSLATIONS ACROSS EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
Section C - MTH 1100-1230, Dr. Vincenz Serrano
Section K - TF 0930-1100, Dr. Melissa Vera Maramara
This course introduces students to theories, methods, issues, disciplinary engagements, and genealogies in World Literature. This course focuses on: (1) the historical undergirding and (2) the interdisciplinary inflections of World Literature. With respect to historicity, this course looks into the emergence of — and numerous contestations regarding — the field of World Literature, concentrating on, but not exclusive to, figures such as Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Rabindranath Tagore, Erich Auerbach, Edward Said, and Pascale Casanova. With respect to interdisciplinarity, the course looks at World Literature’s complementary and contentious relationships with other disciplines, including, but not limited to, nation studies, translation studies, and postcolonial studies. Literary texts such as novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama illuminate the abovementioned topics.
ENLIT 129.93 LITERATURE AND IDEAS I: THE CONTEMPORARY COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL
TF 1400-1530
Ms. Ines Erica Bautista-Yao
The coming-of-age novel documents the unique experience of traveling from childhood to personal maturity, typically with a difficult journey away from home. The framework by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe defines the “bildungsroman” as a novel of formation. Using a survey of bildungsroman texts from the late 20th and early 21st century, the course examines the various literary devices used to evoke a character ` s departure from the familiar to adulthood. It draws upon the rich tradition of American coming-of-age novels in connection with Philippine bildungsroman stories. Topics include rebellion, identity formation, family, friendship, nationalism, romance, gender dynamics, and more.
ENLIT 111.40: ASIAN LITERATURE III: MODERN SOUTH KOREAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
TF 1530-1700
Dr. Alona Guevarra
This course explores fiction produced in South Korea after 1945 up to the early 2000s when the country economically developed. Through close reading and contextualizing of short stories, novellas and novels by authors like Chae Man-Sik, Cho Se-Hui, Yi Mun-yol and Kim Young-Ha, the course shows complex changes in South Korea from its establishment as a democratic republic to its global influence today as a cultural center in Asia and a key player in global economy. Focus is on topics like the development of nationalism and identity as well as the country’s changes within the context of transnationalism and globalization.
ENLIT 163.2: LITERATURE AND IDEAS III: LITERATURE AND TRAUMA STUDIES
WED 1800-2100
Dr. Hidde Van Der Wall
This course introduces students to trauma fiction and to trauma studies issues (ethics, victimization and survival, memory, post-traumatic stress disorder and therapy, history, etc.). Students choosing this elective should be prepared to read texts pertaining to the Holocaust, 9/11, wars, slavery, rape and other extreme adverse events. Familiarity with deconstruction, postmodern, postcolonial and/or psychoanalytical theories would be helpful.
ENLIT 129: LITERATURE AND IDEAS I: FICTION / LITERATURE AND IDEAS I: FICTION (DEVELOPMENT OF FICTION)
SAT 0900-1200
Mr. Danilo Francisco Reyes
This course is a study of specific themes and literary trends in prosaic fiction. The course explores short stories, novellas, and novels from different eras and continents.
M.A. in ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE TEACHING
2nd Semester SY 2021-2022
ENGL 203: EVALUATION PROCEDURES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHING
THU, 6:00-9:00pm
Ms. Irene Benitez
The course provides the students with the basic principles in English language testing inside the classroom, the latest trends in testing, and the five areas of second language assessment: reading comprehension, written expressions, listening comprehension, oral communication, and overall language proficiency. Particular attention is given to the construction of different types of tests used in evaluation and correction of teacher-made tests. Historical, theoretical, and practical viewpoints are combined to offer a thorough orientation to this crucial component of any language and literature curriculum.
ENGL 204: THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF WRITING
SAT, 8:00-11:00am
Mr. Michael Ian Benedict Estipona
The course provides the students with the basic principles in English language testing inside the classroom, the latest trends in testing, and the five areas of second language assessment: reading comprehension, written expressions, listening comprehension, oral communication, and overall language proficiency. Particular attention is given to the construction of different types of tests used in evaluation and correction of teacher-made tests. Historical, theoretical, and practical viewpoints are combined to offer a thorough orientation to this crucial component of any language and literature curriculum.
ENGL 208: SOCIOLINGUISTICS
SAT, 11:00-2:00pm
Dr. Ma. Isabel Martin
This course aims to study language in its social context through a wide range of empirical and ethnographic studies, both local and foreign. It presents to the students key concepts, theories and principles of sociolinguistics from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It also discusses important findings and empirical concerns of sociolinguistics that could be applied to language teaching and learning. At the end of the semester, the students are expected to come up with a research paper on any area of sociolinguistics applied to the Philippine setting.
ENGL 226: ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHING: ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR TEACHERS
SAT, 2:00-5:00pm
Dr. Maria Luz Elena Canilao
This 3-unit course reviews and applies principles of effective oral communication as used in academic and professional settings. It equips students with listening and speaking strategies and sets up functional opportunities for skills practice in active and purposeful listening for academic purposes, effective participation in dynamic group discussions and making more effective oral presentations.
M.A. in LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES
2nd Semester SY 2021-2022
ENLIT 203: THE DEVELOPMENT OF POETRY
Tuesday, 5:00-8:00pm
Dr. Mark Anthony Cayanan
This is a reading course on representative poets and their selected poems. In particular, the course aims to establish a historico-literary outline of the developments in poetry in relation to form, language, and poetry’s function as a mode for articulating philosophical themes. This course will also explore how the lively, imaginative practice of poetry through the ages has allowed poets to participate in a continuing critical debate about fundamental issues in poetics and the various theories of poetry.
ENLIT 206: SURVEY OF PHILIPPINE LITERATURES
Saturday, 11:00-2:00pm
Mr. Glenn Diaz
This course is an introduction to Phil. Literature and literary scholarship. It provides an overview of the historical development of Philippine Literature, covering representative texts of periods, movements and issues. It introduces the students to various fields of research, areas of study and range of scholarship in Philippine Literature.
ENLIT 207: CULTURAL STUDIES II: TEXTS AND TEXTUALITY
Saturday, 8:00-11:00am
Dr. Marguerite Mouton
This course studies “texts” (both traditional literary genres and cultural/textual forms like TV, performances, events, etc.). It examines them as cultural practices which construct/constitute meaning. It questions “textuality” or the presumed degree of stability that enables signification.
ENLIT 215: LITERATURE AND IDEAS III: LITERATURE AND MEMORY STUDIES
Thursday, 5:00-8:00pm
Dr. Jocelyn Martin
This course will introduce students to the concepts of (Cultural, Collective or Social) Memory Studies and its relationship with Literature, which is both cradle and (re)creator of memory. This semester, students will be acquainted with basic theories that explain the memory processes of forgetting, representing and recognition through the lenses of fiction from local and diasporic Filipino authors. This class will be guided by the following question: how does literature and memory help delineate Philippine cultural identity?
Ph.D. in ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
2nd Semester SY 2021-2022
ENLL 302: RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE STUDIES: SCHOLARLY METHODS, INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES
Dr. Maria Luz Elena N. Canilao & Dr. Marianne Rachel G. Perfecto
Fri, 5:00-8:00pm and Sat, 8:00-11:00am
A course on knowledge production, research/scholarship, and criticism in language and literature study and conjunctions and divergences between two aspects of the discipline; exemplary quandaries and directions of transdisciplinary research within the Philippine/Asian and global contexts; and criticism.
ENLL 303: DESCRIPTION(S) OF ENGLISH
Dr. Maria Isabel P. Martin
Saturday, 2:00-5:00pm
A discussion of the ‘linguistics’ of English, the ‘history’ of and the issues related to the ‘making’ (i.e. development) of the English language – how it has created realities in multilingual environments as well as how multilingual realities have created the English that exists in such environments. These topics are addressed from a critical perspective that assumes language to be a social practice, shaped by broader social and political structures while also being subject to individual users’ agency and creativity.
ENLL 315: GRADUATE SEMINAR: LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
Dr. Priscilla Angela T. Cruz
Saturday, 8:00-11:00am
This course explores various theoretical and practical issues related to the language literature teaching continuum - i.e., critical literacy, teacher-text[1]student interaction, the literature-language interfacing debate, the question of stylistics in the literature discussion, the use of authentic versus simplified texts, the process vs. product approach to literature teaching, pedagogical implications of using a language and/or literature model, canon and counter-canon materials - to provide a framework for course design and curriculum development appropriate to the individual context and objectives of each teaching situation.