Society and

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 Institution’s vision and mission
As a social institution, it seeks to:
• Promote, preserve and communicate the upliftment of the human
condition.
✗ Form individuals into persons, who are capable of scientific
activity and of relating everything to an ideal of ethics and social
practice; and,
✗ Identify and respond to students’ struggles as they imbibe the
sensitivity towards social, cultural, economic and environmental
issues.

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 Institutional OUTCOMES AND CORE VALUES

✗ ON BENEVOLENCE AND CARE

✗ ON EXCELLENCE
✗ ON COURAGE

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COURSE DESCRIPTION
SOCIETY AND LITERATURE
 It is a course that aims to study the
creation of Philippine literature
concentrating the societal relevance of
Filipino literary pieces to different
aspects of Philippine society.

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COURSE outline
SOCIETY AND LITERATURE
Course contents
Week 1: General Overview and Introduction to
Literature
Week 2: Literary Criticism
Week 3: Literary Criticism
Week 4&5: Literature About Poverty
WEEK 6: PRELIMINARY EXAM
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Course contents
Week 7: Literature About Human Rights
Week 8&10: Literature About Employment,
Agriculture and National Issues
Week 11: Literature About Employment, Agriculture
and National Issues
WEEK 12: MIDTERM EXAMINATION
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Course contents
Week 13: Literature About Gender Equality
Week 14 & 15: Literature About Minority Groups
Week 16 & 17: Literature About Diaspora and
Migration
Week 18: FINAL EXAMINATION

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COURSE Requirements and
activities
SOCIETY AND LITERATURE
 Requirements and activities
Written Work (20%) Performace Task (20%) Examination (40%)
✗ Quizzes (Objective ✗ Literary Criticism ✗ Preliminary(10%)
Activities)
✗ Movies ✗ Midterm (10%)
✗ Final (20%)
Group
✗ Songs
Paper/Assignment
(20) ✗ Literary Piece

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Introduction to society and
literature
What is Society?
It is a large and organize group
of individuals sharing a common
culture, geographical location
and government.

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 What is literature?
It is a written account of
the man’s most
significant experience.

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Functions of literature
Functions of literature
ENTERTAINMENT SOCIAL AND
✗ Literature is used to POLITICAL
entertain its readers.
✗ Literature shows
Literary works are
consumed for the how society
sake of one’s works around
enjoyment. them.

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Functions of literature
IDEOLOGICAL MORAL
✗ Literature ✗ Literature may
shapes our way impart moral
of thinking values to its
based on other’s reader.
idea.

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Functions of literature
LINGUISTIC CULTURAL
✗ Literature ✗ Literature orients
preserves the us to the
language of every traditions, folklore
civilization from and the arts of our
where it’s ethnic group’s
originated. heritage.
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Functions of literature
EDUCATIONAL HISTORICAL
✗ Teaches us ✗ Keeps a record
many things of events.
about the human
experience.

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LITERARY GENRES
 Literary genres

poetry prose drama

Poetry is a type of A drama is the portrayal
Prose is verbal or
literature that written language that of fictional or non-
conveys a thought, follows the natural flow
fictional events through
describes a scene or of speech. It is the most
tells a story in a common form of the performance of
writing, used in both written dialog (either
concentrated, lyrical fiction and non-fiction.
arrangement of prose or poetry)
words.
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Subgenres/types
Poetry

Lyric Dramatic
• Soliloquy
• Elegy
Narrative • Monologue
• Ode
• Haiku • Epic
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Subgenres/types
Prose

Fiction Non-Fiction
• Autobiography
• Myth • Biography
• Journal
• Memoir
• Travelogue

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Subgenres/types
Drama

Comedy Tragedy

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New Forms and New Types of
Literary
What is media?
Media literature can serve a
wide variety of purposes—
among other things it can
educate, entertain, advertise,
and/or persuade.

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 New types of literary
ILLUSTRATED
NOVELS
The reader must interpret the
images in order to comprehend
the complete story.
COMICS
It is a serialized stories
and most are relatively
short.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
DIGI FICTION Narrative in comic book formats.
It is a literary experience that -It tells a single story form the beginning
combines 3 media: to the end.
movie/video, book and -Its plot is consisting of more mature and
internet websites complex intended for young teens and
adults.
DOODLE FICTION TEXT-TALK NOVELS
a literary presentation stories told almost completely in
where the author dialogue stimulating social
network exchanges.
incorporates doodle
drawings and hand written
graphics in place of
traditional font.
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 New types of literary
✗ CHICK LIT ✗ SPOKEN POETRY
- a modern fiction - a poetic performance
which addresses ✗ FLASH FICTION art that focuses on the
issues about the lives - a style of fictional aesthetics of word
and romantic problems literature of extreme play, intonation, and
of young women brevity voice inflection.

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TO BE CONTINUE!
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 Thanks!
You can find me at:
✗ vanixiansheng@kingfisher.e
du.ph
✗ Vanilyn Dela Cruz
✗ 09155842368

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Credits
✗ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
✗ Photographs by Unsplash
✗ Compilation of Literary Pieces in Global Currents in World Literature by Prof. Mary Ann
Bullagay
✗ http;//www.masterclass.com

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