Republic of the Philippines

UNIVERSITY OF RIZAL SYSTEM

Province of Rizal

GENERAL EDUCATION CENTER

Second Semester SY 2019-2020

Course Title : THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Course Code : CW1

Contact Hours : Lecture: 3 Credit Units : 3
Pre-requisites : Co-requisites :

I. Vision: The Leading University in human, resource development, knowledge and technology generation and environmental
stewardship.

II. Mission: The University of Rizal System is committed to nurture and produce upright and competent graduates and empowered
community through relevant and sustainable higher professional and technical instruction, research, extension and
production services.
III. Goals:

National: To train the nation’s manpower in the skills required for national development and for the improvement of the quality of
human life.

Regional: To train the nation’s manpower in the skills required for regional development.

University: To develop the full potential of an individual in academic and technological discipline for an empowered, productive and
morally upright citizenry.

IV. Core Values : Responsiveness. Integrity. Service. Excellence. Social Responsibility (RISES)

V. Graduate
Attributes : Globally competitive Innovative Adoptive Nationalistic Trustworthy Socially and ethically responsible

VI. Program: BEED/BSE/BSSW

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 VII. Program Outcomes:

The General Education Curriculum aims to develop the following competencies-based outcomes

A. INTELLECTUAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge)

1. Analyze “texts” (written, visual, oral, etc.) critically.

2. Demonstrate proficient and effective communication (writing, speaking, and use of new technologies.
3. Use basic concepts across the domains of knowledge.
4. Demonstrate critical, analytical, and creative thinking.
5. Apply different analytical models in problem solving.

B. PERSONAL AND CIVIC COMPENTENCIES (Values)

1. Appreciate the complexity of the human condition.
2. Interpret the human experience from various perspectives
3. Examines the contemporary world from both Philippines and global perspectives
4. Take responsibility or knowing and being Filipino
5. Reflect critically on shared concerns
6. Generate innovative practices and solutions guided by ethical standards.
7. Make decisions based on moral norms and imperatives.
8. Abdicate respects from human rights.

C. PRACTICAL SKILLS

1. Work effectively in a group.

2. Apply computing tools to process information effectively
3. Use current technology to assist and facilitate learning and research
4. Negotiate the world of technology responsibly
5. Create solutions to problems in various fields
6. Manage one’s knowledge, skills, and values for responsible and productive living.
7. Organize one’s self for lifelong learning.

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 VIII. Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course, the student is expected to have acquired:

1. a basic knowledge of personality theories;
2. a better understanding of their personality, self and identity, along with knowledge of the influential forces which impact on these such as
gender, culture, family and relationships; and
3. basic skills in managing the self and identity. (CMO 20, s. 2013)

IX. Course Description:

This course dwells on the study of important events, places, dates and persons that had conclusively marked a big significance in the making of so
called Philippines History. It highlights the country’s setting as it exceeds through social, cultural, economic and political evolution brought by foreign
influences in the face of colonization and territorial dominion. Additionally, the progression of the Philippine Republic and its partaking in the national and
global affairs will be deliberately conversed at the concluding pieces of the course. Emphasis is laid on the Pre-Spanish and Spanish colonial period, the rise
of the Philippine Nationalism, the American period, the Japanese occupation up to the granting with the Philippine Independence, the Philippine government
under democratic form of governance and considering also the Filipino relations with the South East Asian neighbors. Moreover, this course deals also with
the readings of important events that will provide students in depth understanding of its effect to the future of the country.

X. Course Outline:
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 Outcome-
Week/ Teaching and
Intended Learning Based Learning
Time Content Learning Activities References
Outcome Assessment Resources
Allotment (TLA)
(OBA)
Week 1 Introduce self to classmates Student activity
1.5 hours and teachers

Disseminate and discuss the Class URS Vision, Mission, Core Lecture-Discussion LCD projector URS Student Handbook
URS Vision, Mission, Core Recitation Values and Quality Policy Laptop
ISO Manual
Values and Quality Policy

List expectations for the

course
Week 1 Discuss the syllabus Question and Content and requirements Lecture-Discussion Course Course syllabus
1.5 hours Answer of the subject syllabus

Week 2 Differentiate the competing
3 hours concepts of globalization
Identify the underlying
philosophers of the varying
definitions of globalization
Agree on a working definition
of globalization for the
course
Quiz INTRODUCTION TO THE Lecture-Discussion LCD projector Abelos, Alex V. et al. (2018).
STUDY OF Laptop The Contemporary World.
Recitation GLOBALIZATION: Mutya Publishing House Inc.
Reading pages 1-7.
 Definitions of materials
A 50-word globalization which Student Activity Campanilla, Mario B. and
summary of the writers used in Dannug, Roman R. (2004)
each topic the reports Politics, Governance &
 Globalization Government. C & E
Rubric Systems Publishing Co. Quezon City.
 Balances in pp. 76-87.
Globalization
Aldama, Prince Kennex R.
The Contemporary World.
Rex Book Store. 2018 First
Edition. pp. 77-105.

Week 3 Describe the changes in the Group MARKET GLOBALIZATION Group discussion Reading Abelos, Alex V. et al.
3 hours world economy; presentation  Overview of the materials (2018).The Contemporary
World Economy Group debate World. Mutya Publishing
Identify & distinguish the  Economic Systems House Inc. pages 11-23.
three forms of economic  World Bank Four-
system; Category System Internet source

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 Explain the characteristics of  The Six Core Claims
the World Bank rankings; of Market
and Globalization
 International
Explain the principles, ideas, Economic
and arguments postulated Environment
on the six core claims of
market globalization.
Week 4 Distinguish Nation from Recitation GOVERNMENTS AND Lecture-Discussion LCD projector Abelos, Alex V. et al.
3 hours State; CITIZENS IN A GLOBALLY Laptop (2018).The Contemporary
Identify the elements of the Quiz INTERCONNECTED World. Mutya Publishing
State; WORLD OF STATES Reading House Inc. pages 26-39.
Explain the political, legal,  Meaning of State materials
and regulatory environments and Nation
of global states;  Elements of the
Explain the impact of political State
risks on governments;  The Political, Legal,
Distinguish the Common and Regulatory
Law, Civil Law and Islamic Environments of
Law; and Among States
Explain the principles and
concepts of bribery and
corruption.
Week 5 Define Economic Recitation THE GLOBALIZATION OF Lecture-Discussion LCD projector Abelos, Alex V. et al. (2018).
3 hours Globalization; ECONOMIC RELATIONS Laptop The Contemporary World.
Distinguish Globalization Quiz  Meaning of Mutya Publishing House Inc.
from Internationalization; Economic Reading pages 43-59.
Explain the important Globalization materials
functions of World Trade  Interconnected
Organization; Dimensions of
Discuss different kinds of Economic
trades; Globalization
Explain the importance of  Distinction of
regional trade organizations Globalization from
and implication to the Internationalization
member countries; and  The World Trade
Assess the situation of the Organization and
developing countries in GATT
terms of international trades.  Preferential Trade
Agreements
 Developing

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 Countries and
International Trade
Week 6 Explain the role of Film Review/ MARKET INTEGRATION: Film Showing Film The Corporation (2004)
1.5 hours international financial Reaction directed by Jennifer Abbot
institutions in the creation of Paper “The Rise of the Global LCD projector and Mark Achbar. Written by
a global economy Corporation” Discussion Laptop Harold Crooks and Joel
Rubric Bakan. Retrieved January 2,
Narrate a short history of 2020 from
global market integration in Student Activity Reading https://www.youtube.com/wat
the 20th century materials ch?
v=Pin8fbdGV9Y&list=PLFA50
Identify the attributes of FBC214A6CE87.
global corporations
Week 6 PRELIM EXAM
1.5 hours
Week 7 Discuss the distinction of the Group GLOBAL POLITICS, Student Activity LCD projector Abelos, Alex V. et al. (2018).
3 hours global south and global written report GOVERNANCE, AND THE Laptop The Contemporary World.
north; GLOBALIZATION IN THE Mutya Publishing House Inc.
ASIA-PACIFIC AND pages 77-92.
Explain the success and Rubric SOUTH ASIA Reading
failures of the global divides;  The Global South materials
 Global Inequality
Differentiate regionalization and the Future
and globalization; and  Reasons on
Analyzing States
Research on the factors and Interstates
leading to a greater Inequalities
integration of the Asian  The Asia-Pacific
region. Region
Week 8-10 Analyze how various media Group GLOBALIZATION AND Student Activity LCD projector Abelos, Alex V. et al.
9 hours drive various forms of global written report MEDIA: CREATING THE Laptop (2018).The Contemporary
integration; GLOBAL VILLAGE World. Mutya Publishing
Explain the dynamics  The House Inc. pages 93-117.
between local and global Rubric Communications Reading
cultural production; Media materials
Define mass media and  Media Power and Its
identify its functions and Limits
importance;  The Mass Media
Explain the ethical  Media Ethics
philosophies and problems  Ethical Problems of
in mass media; Global Journalists
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 Explain media ethics and its  The Relationships
effects on social changes; Between
and Globalization and
Explain the relation between Popular Music
globalization and popular  Religion and the
music Mass Media
Week 11- Trace the roots of terrorism; Film TERRORISM Films FRONTLINE's "Losing Iraq"
12 Review/Reac  Terror and Faith Film Showing from
4.5 hours Discuss and relate terrorism tion paper (9/11 terror attack) LCD projector http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pag
to globalization;  The Rise of the ISIS Discussion Laptop es/frontli...
Rubric (PBS News)
Discuss the effects of Student Activity Reading
terrorism to the globe materials Terror and Faith: 9/11 Terror
Attack from Hazards and
Catastrophes retrieved
January 2, 2020 from
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=i9p4aKudQcw
Week 12 MIDTERM
1.5 hours EXAMINATION
Week 13- Explain theories of Recitation GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY: Lecture-Discussion LCD projector Abelos, Alex V. et al.
14 demographic transition and Population, Urbanization, Laptop (2018).The Contemporary
6 hours its effects global population; Quiz and Ecology World. Mutya Publishing
Explain concepts about  Sources of Reading House Inc. pages 138 - 163.
population; Demographic Data materials
Describe the demographic  The Tools of
tools; Demography Internet source
Compare and contrast  Population,
theories of population; Population
Discuss the idea of Dynamics
urbanization and urbanism  Population Theories
as a way of life;  Population Control
Evaluate the concept of Strategies
environment and society as  Ecology
to global dimension;
Describe ecology and
discuss various issues on
environment.
Week 15- Differentiate stability from Recitation SUSTAINABLE Lecture-Discussion LCD projector Understanding Sustainable
16 sustainability; and DEVELOPMENT Laptop Development
6 hours Quiz  Toward a http://www.unesco.org/educat
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 Articulate models of global
sustainable development
Sustainable Society Student Activity (pros Reading ion/tlsf/mods/theme_a/mod02
Group and World and cons of such Materials .html
Output  Food Sustainability policy)
 Food Security Abelos, Alex V. et al.
Rubric (2018).The Contemporary
World. Mutya Publishing
House Inc. pages 180 – 186.

Week 17 Articulate a personal Group GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP Student Activity Reading Abelos, Alex V. et al. (2018).
3 hours definition of global Output materials The Contemporary World.
citizenship; and  Global Citizenship Mutya Publishing House Inc.
Appreciate the ethical Rubric and Education pages 188-197.
obligations of global  Explaining Social
citizenship; and Movements
Explain what global citizen
means.
Week 18 Write a term paper on a topic Term paper Term Paper Writing based Group activity Reading APA format 6th edition
1.5 hours related to globalization with on the topics discussed materials
proper citation Rubric
Internet source
FINAL EXAMINATION

XI. Course Policies:

1. All requirements must be submitted on time. Late submission will receive deductions.
2. No text messaging or entertaining of phone calls during class hours. Please be courteous, turn off your cell phone while inside the classroom.
3. Students with 3 consecutive absences will automatically be dropped from the class roll.
4. Students who wished to drop the course must do so officially and not just stop coming to class.
5. Academic dishonesty: Any form of cheating or plagiarism in this course will result in zero on the exam, assignment or project. Allowing others access to
your work potentially involves cheating. Working with others to produce very similar reports is plagiarism regardless of intent.
6. Problems encountered with the subject must be discussed to the instructor. Such consultation may be made in person during designated time and at
designated place.

XII. Grading System:

60% Class Standing ( Attendance 5%, Seatwork/Homework 5%, Participation 10%, Quizzes 20%, Presentation 20%)
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 40% Term Exam
100%
XIII. Consultation Period:
Day Time Place

Tuesday 1-2:30 PM Faculty Room/Graduate School Office

Prepared by and adapted by:

PROF. JOANNA RUTH P. CASTILLO

Reviewed and approved by:

PROF. FERDINAND C. GIMENO

Head, General Education Center

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