COURSE SYLLABUS

Course Code : Soc Sci 223 Course Title: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Document Code. ACAD-GE-016
No. of Units : 3 units Revision No. 1
Total No. of Hours: 54 hours Prerequisite/Co-requisite : None Effective Date: 2nd Semester, SY 2021 - 2022
Course Description :

This course examines the socio-cultural characteristics of Southeast Asian communities and the role that culture plays in defining contemporary society.
Course Learning Outcomes :

1. Explain why and how “Southeast Asia” was invented, and why it is important to make it inclusive, particularly within the context of the Association of South East Asian Nations.
2. Identify indigenous cultural communalities that antecede the Four Great Traditions and that are shared across the region.
3. Differentiate each of the Great Traditions from the others, and analyze its impact upon the original, indigenous cultural communalities shared across the region.
4. Explain how, in a particular nation of the student’s choice, the Great Tradition interacts with the original indigenous culture both in the past and today.
5. Recommend highlighting indigenous cultural communalities that continue to be shared by the nation-states of ASEAN.
COURSE LEARNING PLAN
Time CLO CLO CLO CLO CLO Teaching and Learning Outcomes-Based
TOPICS References
Allotment 1 2 3 4 5 Activities Assessments
Orientation on the VMGO, Course Policies and Modular and online Inquiry through Q and A Student Handbook
Overview of the Course instruction for purposes of
1.5 clarification via
messenger

Chapter 1: Geography of Southeast Asia  Drawing a political  Winzler, 2011

map  Bellwood, 1997
A. Climate Modular and online  Creating a  www.britannica.com
Instruction with concept Geographical  asiasociety.org
B. Topography
mapping profile
C. Soils and forests
4.0 /  Online objective test
D. Mainland and Insular regions via Google
Forms/Google
E. Present-day Countries and adjacent Classroom
regions  Oral test verification
via messenger or
phone call
Chapter 2: Making a Living and Organizing  Creating timeline  Bellwood, Peter. 1992
Society and diagram  Bowdler, S. 1993
Modular and Online  Writing an  Weightman, Barbara.
A. Prehistory Instruction utilizing graphic imaginary diary 2011
organizer  Online objective test  asiasociety.org
B. The peoples of Southeast Asia: “Races” and via Google  en.wikipedia.org
Ethnicities Forms/Google
1. Subsistence strategies Classroom
2. Swidden  Oral test verification
3. traditional wet rice cultivation 6.5 / / / / via messenger or
4. mechanized farming phone call

C. Varieties of Polities
1. Bands, “Autonomous” Villages, Chiefdoms,
states
2. The pre-nineteenth century “theater” state
3. Bureaucracies versus oligarchies
4. Democratic states versus authoritarian
states
Chapter 3: Indigenous Communalities  Constructing a  Bellwood, Peter. 1992
Language Tree  Prasithratsinth, Amara.
A. Indigenous People in Southeast Asia  Essay writing 1993.
 Compilation of social  Fox, James. 2005
B. A common Language tree
Issues  Keyes, Charles. 2005
 Online objective test  Mulder, Niels. 1996
1. The Austronesians, the Austro-Asiatics and
Modular and Online via Google  Maxwell, Robyn. 1990
the Tai: Originally one family? Forms/Google
Instruction with concept  Wilson, Christine. 2000
2. Language and culture Classroom
6.5 / / / /
mapping and reflective  www.daytranslations.co
3. Origins and diffusion writing  Oral test verification m
via messenger or  asiasociety.org
C. Kinship and Gender phone call  www.un.org
1. Was the bilateral kinship system the norm  www.asienreisender.de
before the coming of the Great Traditions?
2. The relatively high position of women
3. “Paradise is to lie at mother’s feet”
Chapter 4: Traditional Culture in Southeast  Conducting  Bellwood, Peter. 1992
Asia Comparative Analysis  Bowdler, S. 1993
 Writing Insight paper  Weightman, Barbara.
A. Building and Dress Customs  Online objective test 2011
1. Waterawys and Houses on Stilts
via Google  www.britannica.com
Forms/Google  internationalrivers.org
2. Similarities in Dress Classroom
3. The Recurring Importance of Seas and Modular and Online
 Oral test verification
Rivers / / / / Instruction with
5.0 / comparative analysis and
via messenger or
4. Fields and Gardens phone call
self-reflective learning

B. Spirit Beliefs

C. Food Practices

D. Dance

MIDTEM EXAMINATION 1.5

Chapter 5: The Entry of the Four “Great”  Creating table  De Casparis, Johannes
Traditions diagram Gijsbertus and J.W.
 Completing a Marrett. 1992
A. The Chinese: Vietnam, Chinese enclaves diagram  Andaya, Leonardo Y.
 Essay writing  www.aseantourism.trav
in SEA
 Online objective test el
1. The pillars of Chinese tradition and the
via Google  www.inseasia.com
Sinic ecumene Forms/Google  www.britannica.com
2. The colonization of North Vietnam Classroom
3. Chinese trade and migration in Modular and Online  Oral test verification
Instruction with mind via messenger or
Southeast Asia 5.5 / / / /
mapping and exploratory phone call
4. The Chinese and the Manila Galleon activities
trade

B. The Indian: Cambodia, Thailand, Java,

Laos, Myanmar
1. The pillars of Indian tradition, and the
Indic ecumene
2. The formation of states in Southeast
Asia in response to Indian examples
 3. Indian trade and migration in
Southeast AsiaThe Indians and the
Manila Galleon trade

C. The Islamic Tradition: Mindanao, Malaysia,

Brunei, Indonesia
D. The Western Tradition: Philippines and
Singapore
Chapter 6: Encounters Between Multiple  Creating a table  Anderson, Benedict.
Traditions in a Particular Country diagram 1983.
A. Re-interpreting Identity: The “Nation as  Essay Writing  Geertz, Clifford. 1960
 Impact analysis  Van Klinken, Gerry.
Imagined Community”
 Online objective test 2003.
B. The Indonesian Case: Animism, Hindu- via Google  Zialcita, Fernando N.
Modular and online Forms/Google 1995
Buddhism and Islam in Central Java
instruction using graphic Classroom  Ileto, Reynaldo
C. The Vietnamese Case: Chinese Hegemony 8.5 / / / /
organizer and reflective  Oral test verification Clemeña. 1981
and Local Responses activity via messenger or  Pattana Kitiarsa. 2005
phone call  www.culturalsurvival.or
D. The Philippine Case: Spanish Colonialism g
and Local Responses  en.wikipedia.org
E. The Thai Case: Several, Distinct Religious
Traditions in Interplay
Chapter 7: In Quest of a Regional Identity  Creating a mini-  Drumond, Catherine.
through ASEAN documentary 2013
showcasing the  Tolentino, Rolando.
different cultures and 2013.
A. History of ASEAN Establishment Modular and online
instruction using graphic
societies in SEA  asean.org
B. ASEAN Member States  Making a timeline  www.asean2019.go.th
4.5 / / / / / organizer, reflective activity
C. Community Pillars  Creating a table graph  www.nti.org
and multimedia
presentation  Online objective test
D. Structure of ASEAN via Google
E. ASEAN Regional Identity Forms/Google
Classroom
 Oral test verification
 via messenger or
phone call
FINAL EXAMINATION 1.5

References:

1. Andaya, Leonardo Y. “Interactions with the Outside World and Adaptation in Southeast Asian Society, 1500-1800”. in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. 1: From Early Times
to c. 1800. Edited by Nicholas Tarling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2. Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
3. Bellwood, Peter. 1992. “Southeast Asia before history,” in N. Tarling (ed) The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Bowdler, S. 1993. “Asian origins: Archaeology and anthropology,” in G. Evans (ed) Asia’s Cultural Mosaic. New York and Singapore: Prentice-Hall.
5. De Casparis, Johannes Gijsbertus and J.W. Marrett. 1992. “Religion and Popular Beliefs of Southeast Asia before c. 1500”, pp. 276-340, in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia,
Vol. 1: From Early Times to c. 1800. Edited by Nicholas Tarling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Drumond, Catherine. 2013. “The impossibility of performing ‘Asia’”, pp. 179-193. In Fujubi Nakamura et al., Asia through Art and Anthropology. London: Bloomsbury.
7. Fox, James. 2005. “Southeast Asian Religion: Insular Cultures”. In Encyclopedia of Religion, pp. 8647-8652
8. Geertz, Clifford. 1960. Religion in Java. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Winzeler, Robert L. 2011. The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today. Alta Mira Press. (online)
9. Ileto, Reynaldo Clemeña. 1981. Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1846-1910. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press
10. Keyes, Charles. 2005. “Southeast Asian Religion: Mainland Cultures”. In Encyclopedia of Religion, pp. 8638-8646. Note: Both are available at the Reserve Section as photocopies under
the title: “Southeast Asian Religion”.
11. Maxwell, Robyn. 1990. Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, trade and transformation. Oxford: University Press.
12. Mulder, Niels. 1996. Inside Southeast Asia: Religion, Everyday Life and Cultural Change. Amsterdam: Pepin Press. “Religious Syncretism in SEA Religion”, pp. 17-25; “Living with
Conflict among Javanese and Tagalog Filipinos”, pp. 107-116; “The Common Cultural Construction of Social Life”, pp. 229-249.
13. Pattana Kitiarsa. 2005. “Beyond Syncretism: Hybridization of Popular Religion in Contemporary Thailand”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 36 (3), pp. 461-87.
14. Purcell, Victor. 1951. The Chinese in Southeast Asia. London and New York: The Oxford University Press. “Early Chinese Contacts with Southeast Asia”, “Emigration to the Nanyang”,
“Aspects of Chinese Society in Southeast Asia”, pp. 11-53.
15. Student Handbook
16. Tolentino, Rolando. 2013. Niche globality: Philippine media texts to the world. In Nissim Otmazgin et al. Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations: East and Southeast Asia.
Singapore and Kyoto: National University of Singapore Press and Kyoto University Press.
17. Van Klinken, Gerry. 2003. “Ethnicity in Indonesia”. In Ethnicity in Asia, ed. by Colin McKerras. London: Routledge, pp. 64-87.Weightman, Barbara. 2011. Dragons and Tigers: A
Geography of South, East and Southeast Asia. Pp. 26-48, 119-147.
18. Wilson, Christine. 2000. “Southeast Asia”, pp. 1151-1165. The Cambridge World History of Food, vol 2.. Edited by Kenneth Kiple and Kriemhild Conee-Ornelas. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
19. Zialcita, Fernando N. 1995. “State Formation, Colonialism and National Identity in Vietnam and the Philippines”. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, vol. 22 (2), pp. 77-117
Online Sources:
1. https://www.britannica.com/place/Southeast-Asia
2. https://asiasociety.org/education/introduction-southeast-asia
3. http://ontheworldmap.com/asia/map-of-southeast-asia.html
4. https://www.aseantourism.travel/articles/detail/southeast-asia-s-most-dazzling-gardens
5. http://www.inseasia.com/2015/01/southeast-asian-traditional-dress/
6. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/articles/the-diverse-cuisine-of-southeast-asia
7. https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-
8. https://asean.org/asean/about-asean/history/
9. https://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/association-southeast-asian-nations-asean/
10. https://www.asean2019.go.th/en/infographic/3-pillars-of-asean-community