Southeast Asia Christian College

#2 Mulawin Street, Amparo Village Subdivision, Caloocan City / Tel. No. 89308260
Bachelor of Science in Complementary and Alternative Therapies and Public Health
OBE Course Syllabus
First Year
Second Semester SY 2024-2025
Course Syllabus Template

Course Name PHILIPPINE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Course Code CM 103
Course Credits 3 Units
Course Description
Course hrs/week 3 hours
Pre-requisite None
Course Outcomes At the end of the course the students are expected to:
1. Identify the ability to use information technology both individual and collaboratively to help formulate questions, generate ideas, seek solutions
and solve problems.
2. Distinguish the awareness of computer terminology and knowledge of how they work together in an information technology environment.
3. Recognize to the students learn how to use more advance features associated with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint,
Webmail and Internet Technology.

Course Outline and Time Frame

Week Course Content/Subject Matter
Week 1 – 2 1. Orientation and Course Introduction

1
 Week 3 – 4 2. Confluence of Traditions: Traditional Medicine, 16th and 17th Centuries
Week 5 – 6 3. The Observations of Alcina: A Catalog of Traditional Remedies for Everyday Life
Week 7 – 8 4. Botanical Expeditions and Scientific Investigations: Traditional Medicine in the Spanish Enlightenment, 18 th and 19th Centuries
Week 9 5. MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Week 10 – 11 6. Belief and Science: Traditional Medicine in the 19th Century
Week 12 – 13 7. The Scientific Identification and Practical Application of Philippine Medical Plants and Herbs
Week 14 – 17 8. Making the Tropics Habitable and Healthful: Traditional Medicine, the State, and the Beginnings of Public Health
Week 18 9. Final Examination

Alignment of Course Outcomes with Summative Assessment Task

Course Objectives Summative Assessment Talk Details

At the end of the course the students should be able to:
Competencies
1. Presentation of the topic with the aid of some visual aid
Skills in the computer and projector
Values white board and marker
1. Book reading and video watching-talk about some key
learning points
Oral recitation
Assessment tests

Written Essay and Mid-Term Examination

Written Final Examination

Video Watching and write Critical Analysis on a case study

Research Paper Submission

Information kit

Oral communication
Lecture

2
 Learning Plan

Desired Learning Outcomes Course Content/ Subject Proposed Proposed Teaching and Assessment Resource Proposed
Matter Textbook/References Learning Activities Time:3
hours/week
Professor
Student
WEEK 1 – 2 Orientation and  Introduction to House Bill 06137
Course Introduction Philippine Traditional Republic of the The professor will conduct Quiz Materials for
Medicine Philippines course orientation and class teaching-learning: 6 hours
 Plural Traditions HOUSE 0F discussion through multimedia Recitation
 Filipino Approaches to REPRESENTATIVES powerpoint presentation
Health and Medicine Quezon City Active Participation Computer use
 Study in Philippine NINETEENTH CONGRESS The students will participate in Projector if
History First Regular Session a Classroom Discussion, Outputs available
https://hrep- Expectation setting,
WEEK 3 – 4 Confluence of  The Humors website.s3.ap- Group discussion, and Worksheets Printed handouts
Traditions: Traditional  Holistic Medicine southeast- Group oral presentation
Medicine, 16th and 17th  Specialized Medicine 1.amazonaws.com/
Centuries  Health, Hygiene, and legisdocs/basic_19/ Mobile phone or
Beauty HB06137.pdf laptop computer
 Foundations of for google works
Traditional Medicine

WEEK 5 – 6 The  Multipurpose Herbs

Observations of Alcina: A and Plants Learning Tasks
Catalog of Traditional  Poison Purgers Performance Tasks
Remedies for Everyday Life  Ladies’ Choice
 Collector’s Items
 A Defined Medical
Tradition
WEEK 7 – 8 Botanical  Science, Commerce,
Expeditions and Scientific and Spanish Botanical

3
Investigations: Traditional
Medicine in the Spanish
Enlightenment, 18th and
19th Centuries
WEEK 9 PRELIMINARY
EXAMINATION
WEEK 10 – 11 Belief and
Science: Traditional
Medicine in the 19th Century
WEEK 12 – 13 The Scientific
Identification and Practical
Application of Philippine
Medical Plants and Herbs
WEEK 14 – 17 Making the
Tropics Habitable and
Healthful: Traditional
Medicine, the State, and the
Beginnings of Public Health
Studies 3 hours
 An Officer and a
Nobleman
 Utilitarianism and the
Real Jardin Botanico
Power point
presentations
 Midwives and the Birth
of Public Health Care 6 hours
Providers
 The Continued
Patronage of the
Herbolario
 Manuel Blanco and the
Flora de Filipinas
 Recognition and
Reforms in Traditional
Medicine
 Bringing Modern Laboratory Exercises:
Medicine to the Colony MS tools
 First Impressions of Printed 3 hours
Manila Summative: Prelim examination
 Organizing Public Examination papers/ hands on
Health Work activity 6 hours
 Public Health alongside
Filipino Traditional
Medicine Class Discussion
 Traditional Medicine, PowerPoint Presentation
the Laboratory, and the Hands on Exercises
4
 State
 From Traditional
Medicine to Public
Health: Charting the
History of Medicine in
the Philippines

6 hours

WEEK 18 FINAL
EXAMINATION
FINAL REQUIREMENTS

5
 Hands on Laboratory
Exercises: MS tools

Summative: Midterm Pencil and paper 3 hours

Examination tests
Practicum

Class Discussion
PowerPoint Presentation Quiz 3 hours
Hands on Exercises Recitation
Seatwork
Oral Presentation
Individual
PowerPoint
Presentation 3 hours

3 hours

3 hours

6
 3 hours
Hands – on
laboratory Exercises:
MS Excel

Summative
Examination: Final
Examination
Final Project / 3 hours
Portfolio

Suggested https://hrep-website.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/legisdocs/basic_19/HB06137.pdf
Readings and
References
Course Suggested:
Requirements Reflection Paper Prelim Examination Quizzes Midterm Examination Recitation/ Seat work/ Board work
Prompt Submission of Projects and other Requirements Semifinal Examination Reporting Final Examination
Grading Suggested:
System Active class participation, preparation, and attending class on time: 40%.
Presentations (Midterm Show and Tell: 10%
Final Presentation: 25%):
Semester Paper: 25%.
100%

Prepared by: Submitted to:

Rev. Dr. Anecito Arendain Rev. Dr. Jung Chun Mo .