REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS

PAMANTASANG NORMAL NG PILIPINAS VISAYAS

Philippine Normal University Visayas
ANG PAMBANSANG SENTRO SA EDUKASYONG PANGGURO
The National Center for Teacher Education
Environment and Green Technology Education Hub
LUNGSOD NG CADIZ 33E20135
City of Cadiz
Faculty of Teacher
Development

OBE COURSE SYLLABUS

PNU Vision-Mission PNU shall become internationally recognized and nationally responsive teacher education university. As the
established producer of knowledge workers in the field of education, it shall be the primary source of high-
quality teachers and education managers that can directly inspire and shape the quality of Filipino students
and graduates in the country and the world.

PNU is dedicated to nurturing innovative teachers and education leaders.

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in teacher education and nurture innovative teachers and education leaders imbued with values of truth,
excellence, and service. We commit to the continual growth of the University through compliance with
international Quality Standards and statutory and regulatory requirements. We shall achieve this through our
core functions of instruction, research, extension, and production.

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Environmental Policy preservation of the environment and promotion of the renewable resources and clean energy technologies
Statement through education. The campus further commits to integrate environmental management in to its operational
(ISO 14001:2015) and decision-making processes, curricular programs, co-curricular activities, research and extension
endeavors through compliance with International Environmental Standards and relevant statutory and
regulatory requirements.

FTD Goals The Faculty of Teacher Development promotes the University’s mission of nurturing innovative teachers and
educational leaders. It is committed to:
1. Providing the best teacher preparation and development training to produce teachers who are
strong in content, grounded in the discipline and possess the technological and pedagogical
knowledge to effectively teach and lead in the on-going educational reforms at all levels of
education;
2. Promoting quality instruction by ensuring a strong philosophical and conceptual foundations for the
teacher education curriculum programs to develop graduates with the following qualities: humane
and ethical educated person, reflective and responsive specialist, critical and creative technology
expert and transformative educator;
3. Advancing research in education by providing opportunities to students and faculty members of the
College to conduct research to produce and construct knowledge about teaching- learning, reflect
and make meaningful connections between theory and practice, solve problems and locate
opportunities for strategic actions; and
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 institutions and agencies and establishing partnerships with communities and organizations involved
in education.

Course Number  2S-Eng15

Course Title
Course Prerequisite
Course Description
Literary Criticism
None
The course provides a study of different literary approaches and theories from the classical
to the contemporary and offers opportunities to actually examine and apply such
approaches and theories in selected literary and non-literary texts.

Program Specialization
Outcomes
The course focuses on critical theory as it applies to literature and culture. Review of
classical Greek origins of issues concerning the nature of literature and criticism. Study of
major twentieth-century theories and applications: historical, formalist, archetypal,
psychoanalytic, Marxist, reader-response, New Historicist, feminist, postcolonial, American
multicultural, structuralist and various post-structuralist perspectives.
In addition to the PNU OBTEC Outcomes, the Green OBTEC will develop or produce environmentally
responsive graduate possessing the ability:

 to investigate the human condition

 to think critically and with understanding about written and filmed media
 to broaden and deepen the ability to write effectively in academic and professional
settings and for personal growth
 to practice the forms professional writers use and learn the technology needed to make
writing a profession
 to reflect on ethical and philosophical issues raised whenever one reads a creative,
explanatory, or persuasive text
 to engage in creative thought, in collaboration with other students, thus generating new
possibilities for thinking, dreaming, and challenging structures in society

Number of Hours: 3 hours every week for 18 weeks or 54 hours in a semester

Instructional Delivery Design

Student Activity Faculty Activity

Content
Course
Session No./ (preferably with
Learning Online ASYNCHRONOUS3 INDIVIDUAL Assessment
Duration focusing/essential
Outcomes Synchronous (3.5 hrs./week) CONSULTATI
questions)
(Minimum of 1 ON/COACHIN
hour/week) G
(Asynchronous
3 hrs/week)

COURSE CONTENT

Learning Topic Methodology Resources Assessment

Outcomes

Weeks 1-2: Introduction

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-Discuss the Orientation and Lecture discussion “21 century skills: Learning for life
st
Recitation
landscape of introduction to in our times” by Bernie Trilling and
21 century
st
literary criticism Charles Fadel Quiz
literature, and
Movie/film viewing
the different
literary
conventions. Introduction “Underconstruction: World
Discussion Literature in the 21 century world”
Reading excerpts
st

questions:
by Jerry A. Varsava
Worksheets
1. Why study literary
theory?
The postmodern context

Rubrics for
Postmodern literary elements: video
Minimalism: presentation

Flash fiction: Journal  logs

Metafiction: 

Weeks 3-4: Literature and the Text

-List the Traditional Literary Excursion: “To His Coy Literary map
Approaches – Mistress” – Andrew Marvell (poetry
representative/ exhibit rubric
packet)
prominent
 Biographical/
writers. Historical
 Genre
Criticism Rubrics

Wigan

Define, identify Introduction to  Plato, Book X, from The Briefly, outline

the features, Aristotle and Plato Republic specifically
Print out (online) Plato’s beliefs
and regarding
at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/r
differentiate epublic.11.x.html poets. Why did
each major and  Aristotle, excerpt Plato believe
emerging from Poetics - print parts 1-15 poets
genre. Print out (online) at needed to be
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/ banished?
poetics.html
 “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” –
 New Criticism Emily Dickenson or
and Formalism "Stopping by Woods on a “Aristotle
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 Snowy Evening" - Robert Frost Award” – In
(literature packet) one concise
paragraph of
no more than
260 words,
explain the
most important
aspects of The
Poetics. First
and second
place awards
will be
determined.

Re-read
Tyson's
interpretation
of The Great
Gatsby.
Identify and
explain the
devices
of New
Criticism
Tyson uses as
she
analyzes The
Great Gatsby.
Weeks 8-9: Literature and Psychology

Assess the   Psychoanalytic  Discussion lesson - website link – Freud “The Distance
Criticism  Tyson, “Psychoanalytic Criticism,” 13- of the Moon”
relationship
45 – Cosmicomic
the elements s
of each
major and Literary Excursion: “Once Upon a Identify and
emerging Time” – Nadine Gordimer (literature discuss some
genres. packet) of the many
• Jacques Lacan (brief overview) archetypes
 Archetypal evident in
Criticism Calvino's "The
Distance
of the Moon"

Weeks 10-11: Literature and Audience

Manifest  Reader- website link Using

Response Tyson, “Reader-Response Criticism” the Reception
understanding
Criticism- 153-191 Theory 
and consider one
appreciation of text
the major and (a poem, story,
film, drama,
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emerging genre "The Story of an Hour" - Kate Chopin etc.) that you
5 Stories of an Hour (video) read a long
through a
time ago and
literary blog, then re-read.
video Using
presentation, the concept
Hans Robert
poetry reading   Jauss refers to
performance, as "horizons of
critical review, The role of literature in the scheme expectation"
and of things (which is
generally
improvisation. used in
reference to
different
historical
periods rather
than to stages
in the life of an
individual
reader), as
well as its
reformulation
by Wolfgang
Iser, write a
short report on
how and why
you originally
interpreted the
text, and how--
at a later date--
your
interpretation
changed.
How did your
changed
"horizons of
expectation"
affect your
interpretation?
Week12: Midterm Exam (submit Essays)

Week 13-14:Literature and Socioeconomics

 Marxism website link

Tyson, “Marxist Criticism,” 49-78

 Socialism The Women - 1939 film directed by

George Cukor

Ang Paglilitis kay Mang Serapio by

Paul Dumol

Week 15-19: Literature and Culture

 New  website link

Historicism Tyson, 277-311

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 What panoptic
structures can
Excerpt from Where the Boys you identify in
Are, 1960 today's
society?
“The Structures of Punishment” –
Michel Foucault
Discussion
- website link questions: 1)
Tyson, “Feminist Criticism,” 81-113 We discussed
the traditional
version of the
“Without Colors” - Cosmicomics fairytale "Little
Red Riding
“Sitara: Let Girls Dream” Hood" in class;
identify the
ways in which
Carter's
 Feminism
version "re-
writes" gender
roles, 2)
Cixous
begins her
essay by citing
a number of
binaries - what
is her point?,
and 3) In the
section
where Cixous
quotes Joyce
("Bridebed,
childbed, bed
of death") what
is the
traditional
trajectory (life)
she sees for
women vs.
men?

 Postcolonialism website link

Tyson, 363-417

Movie Clip: The King and I

"Orientalizing the Oriental" - Edward

Said

 American Website link

Multiculturalism
Tyson, 380-400 & 417

“The Dinosaurs” – Cosmicomics

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 Movie clip: White Man's Burden, 1995.

Toni Morrison, “Black Matters”

Week 20-22: Literature, Language & Its Structures of Meaning

 Structuralism and - website link

Semiotics Tyson, 197-237

“The Light-Years” – Cosmicomics

small group "The World of Wrestling" - Roland

discussions Barthes

 Modernism &
Postmodernism website link
Tyson, 241-274

Excerpt from film: Derrida - produced in

2002
 Post-  Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign,
Structuralism & and Play in the Discourse of the
Deconstruction Human Sciences”

“A Sign in Space” - Cosmicomics

Rebuttals of Poststructuralism – Neo-

Pragmatism

Week 24: Final Exam(submit Final paper)

Literary Synthesis All Applicable

Approaches
to
Poem: To His
Coy Mistress
(Marvel)
Prose:
Huckleberry

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 Finn (Twain)
OR
Hamlet
(Shakespeare
)
Course Requirements: 1. Regular Paper
2. Quiz
3. Final
4. Research Output
Assessment:
Regular Paper 30 %
Quiz 20 %
Final Output 50 %

Prepared by: Approved by:

Associate Dean

Name of Faculty Dean

Date: October 8, 2021

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