Summer 2019
Intermediate Filipino
The goal of this course is to enable students to increase their proficiency in Filipino to at least the intermediate-high level of the national ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. While speaking and listening comprehension will be stressed, training in reading and writing Filipino will be an integral part of instruction. Films and video/audio materials will supplement written texts.
8 week session - 6/24/2019 to 8/16/2019
Discussion Section
Section: 101
CCN: 15527
Days and time: MTThF 13:00A-14:59P
Room: DWIN104
R5A - Great Books of India - CANCELLED
This course offers a broad historical, political, ethnographical and and cultural survey of the civilizations of the Indian subcontinent from the earliest period known to archaeology to the advent of Islam as a major cultural and political force around the 13th century CE. Lectures, readings, and class discussions will center on seminal texts that have influenced South Asian civilizations from the earliest antiquity to the late medieval period. This course is open to all interested students and is required for those majoring or minoring in South Asian Studies.
First 6 week session - Runs 5/28/2019 to 7/5/2019
Hindu Mythology
In this course we will study literary and religious aspects of Hindu myths. Through the reading of primary sources in translation, the course covers the main divinities and many mythological themes of early Vedic as well as later Puranic literature. We will follow the development of mythology from the Rg Veda to the epics—The Mahabharata and the Ramayana—and up to the classical mythology of the Sanskrit Puranas.
Second 6 week session - Runs 7/8/2019 to 8/16/2019
Philippines: History, Literature, Performance
The course focuses on Philippine history through literature and performance. Among the texts to be discussed are: traditional forms (rituals, poetry, songs, dances) that give insights to belief systems and economic, political, and social life during the indigenous or precolonial period; performance and literary forms that were instruments both of colonial conquest and anti-colonial movements; and theater and literature that participated in discourse on agrarian issues, labor, martial law and militarism, gender rights, academic freedom, and human rights.
First 6 week session - Runs 5/28/2019 to 7/5/2019
Filipino Mythology
An introduction to the mythologies of the Phillipines, providing a comparative overview of key myths. We will focus on indigenous narrative traditions encompassing myths of creation and origin, agricultural and maritime myths and practices, the founding of kingdoms, and indigenous geographies. We will further explore the role of myth in the contemporary world.
Second 6 week session - Runs 7/8/2019 to 8/16/2019
Study Abroad: Philippines: Narratives of Tradition and Resistance
The course brings students on a research trip to the Philippines to learn through interviews and interactions with Filipino people, selected lectures by the Philippines’ leading scholars and interactive activities with the Philippines’ artists and writers.
This is a course offered in Manila, Philippines through Berkeley Study Abroad.
For more information, please visit their website: http://studyabroad.berkeley.edu/program/summerabroad/philippines
Philippine Cultural Politics
Can a song inspire a revolution? The course focuses on literary, visual, and performance texts that participated in political discourses in the Philippines. What strategies did the writers and artists employ? How did writers and artists face issues of censorship and persecution? How did social movements influence these texts, and in turn, how did these texts contribute to these social movements?
First 6 week session - Runs 5/28/2019 to 7/5/2019
The History and Literature of Revolution in the Philippines - CANCELLED
This course will explore revolution -- both the idea and the event -- as it played out over the course of nineteenth and twentieth Philippine history, and the ways in which it shaped Philippine literature. We will examine the fraught questions of historiography, of the reliability of our sources, and of reading the established historical record "against the grain."
Our course texts will include scholarly monographs, novels, short stories, political manifestos and tracts, and poetry. Through these works we will examine questions of nationalism, populism, international and regional relations, and the explosive class tensions that marked the last two centuries of Philippine politics, from Spanish colonialism to the Duterte government.
First 6 week session - Runs 5/28/2019 to 7/5/2019
Dept/Crs |
Sec | Title | Instructor | Days/Times | Location | CCN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FILIPN 100AB | 001 | Intermediate Filipino | Aban, Cynthia Agnes C | MTWThF 11:00A-12:59P | DWIN104 | 14479 |
| SASIAN R5A | 001 | R5A - Great Books of India - CANCELLED | Whittington, Rebecca Diane | MTWThF 11:00A-12:59P | DWIN247 | 15528 |
| SASIAN 140 | 001 | Hindu Mythology | Gonzalez-Reimann, Luis A | MTW 17:00P-18:59P & Th 17:00P-17:59P | DWIN206 | 13996 |
| SEASIAN 148 | 001 | Philippines: History, Literature, Performance | Barrios-Leblanc, Maria | MWF 16:30P-18:59P | DWIN219 | 15529 |
| SEASIAN 152 | 001 | Filipino Mythology |
Aban, Cynthia Agnes C & Llagas, Karen Llagas, Karen |
MWF 16:00P-17:59P | BARR118 | 15971 |
| SEASIAN 154 | 001 | Study Abroad: Philippines: Narratives of Tradition and Resistance | Barrios-Leblanc, Maria | Manila, Phillipines | 15860 | |
| SEASIAN 160 | 001 | Philippine Cultural Politics | Barrios-Leblanc, Maria | MWF 14:00P-16:29P | MOFF103 | 15530 |
| SSEASN 120 | 002 | The History and Literature of Revolution in the Philippines - CANCELLED | Scalice, Joseph Paul | MWF 10:00A-11:59A | DWIN215 | 15531 |
