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ENG 014.1: INTRODUCTION to STUDY, THINKING, and LANGUAGE SKILLS IN ENGLISH    

This course provides the venue to learn and use critical grammatical structures and vocabulary in English through communicative activities, college study and thinking techniques.

ENG 16.1: STUDY, THINKING, and LANGUAGE SKILLS IN ENGLISH
Credit Unit: 3 units    

The course enhances study, thinking and communicative skills for academic studies. It prepares students to aptly respond to college-level challenges requiring reading and writing.

ENG 17: EFFECTIVE SPEECH COMMUNICATION
Credit Unit: 3 units    

The course aims to develop self-awareness and self-confidence in using English for oral communication. The components are as follows: 1) a review of vowel and consonant sounds in English, and 2) a study and application of principles and practices of public speaking.

ENG 27: WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINE, and BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE
Credit Unit: 3 units    

The course develops and enhances skills in writing a research paper and different forms of business communication. It also instructs students on the ethical principles related to research and business writing, particularly concerning plagiarism, and respect in business circles. Also, the students learn to engage in the research process meticulously, and follow the principles of business writing perseveringly.

ENG 34.1: THE LITERATURES OF THE WORLD
Credit Unit: 3 units    

The course introduces students to the different literary genres for them to develop appreciation for the literatures of the world.

ENG 34.2: WORLD CIVILIZATIONS AND LITERATURE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This three-unit course, intended for second year nursing students, is designed to introduce them to the development and growth of major civilizations in the world from the antiquity to the modern times through the critical reading of literary texts that emerged out of these civilizations.

ENG 41: HUMANITIES: ART, AESTHETICS and SOCIETY
Credit Unit    : 3 units    

The course aims to develop heightened critical thinking through awareness, appreciation, and preservation of art and culture.

ENG 28: ADVANCED GRAMMAR and COMPOSITION
Credit Unit : 3 units    

The course gives a comprehensive review of English grammar and usage, and is offered to those who need to strengthen their training in college-level composition writing. It thoroughly discusses four modes of written discourse: description, narration, exposition and persuasion, and with these modes, the syntactic and rhetoric lessons necessary for essay writing. It prepares for academic writing activities such as term paper writing and technical study.

ENG 47: SURVEY OF PHILIPPINE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Credit Unit: 3 units    

The course surveys the development of Philippine literature in English. It initiates critical analysis on the works of important Filipino writers in English for each period of development from the earliest to the present time. It further looks into the characteristically Filipino elements in selected literary pieces.

Bachelor Of Arts In English Language

ENG 44: INTRODUCTION to LANGUAGE STUDY
Credit Unit: 3 units

The course introduces the different subfields in linguistics (the scientific study of language) – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics – and the methods employed in each subfield.

ENG 42: INTRODUCTION to APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course introduces the basic concepts and principles of applied linguistics and their application to language teaching.

ENG 45: ARGUMENTATION
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course presents the principles, methods, and dynamics of argumentation as applied to public speaking, discussion and debate.

ENG 74: STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH
Credit Unit: 3 units

This introduces the structure of English language exemplified contextually through varied texts and registers.

ENG 77: CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course covers the dynamics of cross-cultural communication with focus on English as a global language.

ENG 61: LANGUAGE IN CULTURE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course engages students to study various concepts and themes on the relation of language and culture with focus on the Filipino’s cultural behavior manifested in the use of language.

ENG 61.1: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course is the study of language in its social context, with focus on Philippine society.

ENG 61.2: REGISTERS IN ENGLISH
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course describes various registers of the English Language expressed through written texts aimed at specific purposes and audiences.

ENG 33: CREATIVE WRITING
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course enables students to develop and enrich their writing skills with creative imagination to produce short stories, non-creative fiction, poems, and others.

ENG 36.1: COLLEGE ENGLISH TEACHING-TESTING
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course surveys the more recent approaches in language teaching based on prominent theories and practices in college English teaching and testing

ENG 55.1: WRITING FOR PRINT MEDIA
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course introduces students to the conventions in writing various components of print media. It also gives students the opportunity to write various newspaper articles for immediate class critiquing.

ENG 82.1: LANGUAGE RESEARCH
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course exposes students to the application of basic theories, principles, and methods in research writing on language topics.

ENG 90.2: PRACTICUM 1 - PRACTICE TEACHING, BASIC OFFICE COMMUNICATION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Credit Unit: 3 units    

This course for the senior English majors covers two major components.  Practice teaching requires students to perform actual classroom teaching while basic office communication skills development engages students with oral and written communications tasks on the job.

ENG 91.2: PRACTICUM 2 - CREATIVE/JOURNALISTIC/RESEARCH WRITING & PUBLICATIONS, PRACTICE TEACHING ENHANCEMENT
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course further develops senior students on two areas: writing and teaching.  The first component enables them to produce publishable write-ups while the second component enhances their teaching skills.

ENG 97:CALL CENTER ENGLISH
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course introduces the English varieties used in call centers (which require communication protocols).

ENG 98: STAGE PRODUCTION
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course exposes students to the dynamics and mechanics of stage production using an array of genres, such as plays and speeches.

ENG-VER1: CEBUANO LANGUAGE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course introduces the formal study of the linguistic elements of the Cebuano language.

Bachelor Of Arts in Literature

ENG 81.1: LITERARY THEORY and CRITICISM
Credit Unit: 3 units    

Central to this course is the study of theories and methods of approaching literature from the early to the current time—with emphasis on the 21st century trends of understanding the ways texts make meaning. The course aims to provide students with the critical tools necessary to read literary texts.

ENGLISH 59: LITERARY HISTORY of the PHILIPPINES
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course studies the history of the Philippines as embodied in its literature, from ancient epics such as Darangen, to the latest plays, and to works which have won the Palanca and National Book Awards. The course aims to relate literature to the social and political history of the nation.

ENG 89: THE TRADITION OF POETRY
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course engages students to a critical reading of numerous poems written by poets of different countries, centuries, and genres—such as lyric, epic, narrative, and dramatic. The course aims to provide students with the tools necessary to read poems in the context of the tradition of poetry.

ENG 89.1: THE TRADITION OF FICTION
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course engages students in a critical reading of numerous works of fiction by writers from different countries, centuries, and genres—including legend, epic, short story, novel, and screenplay. The course aims to provide students with the tools necessary to read stories in the context of the tradition of fiction.

ENG 96: FIFTEENTH to SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORLD LITERATURE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course gives students an exposure to prominent world literature specifically written from the 15th to the 17th century, and from different countries, with the general intention of finding common concerns of humanity within this period.

ENG 28.1: ADVANCED EXPOSITORY WRITING
Credit Unit: 3units

This course enables students to write essays using the different modes of exposition such as definition, process, comparison and contrast, classification and division, analogy, illustration and example, cause and effect, and case analysis.

ENG 7.1: LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course gives students the opportunity to survey representative literature written in English across all English-speaking countries.

ENG 55.1: WRITING FOR PRINT MEDIA
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course introduces students to the conventions in writing various components of print media. It also gives students the opportunity to write various newspaper articles for immediate class critiquing.

ENG 82: LITERARY RESEARCH
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course introduces students to the conventional and innovative ways of doing research in the field of literature.  The course aims to enable students write a thesis of about thirty pages on a literary text written from a particular region in the Philippines.

ENG 96.1: EIGHTEENTH to TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD LITERATURE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course surveys literature in various genres from prominent representative countries, produced within the 18th to the 20th century.

ENG 64.2: THE TEACHING AND TESTING OF LITERATURE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course orients students to the approaches, methods and techniques in teaching and testing literature in college. The course gives students the opportunity to demonstrate teaching poems, shorts stories, and other literary genres, and construct assessments that test learners of literature.

ENG 96.2: ECOCRITICAL APPROACH TO PHILIPPINE LITERATURE in ENGLISH  
Credit Unit: 3 units

Using an eco-critical approach, this course maps Philippine literature in English. It looks into the representations of nature and other environmental aspects of literary texts, and examines the relationship between literature and physical environment.

ENG 96.3: POSTMODERN LITERATURE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course enables the students to be familiar with postmodern literary texts, authors, and styles.     

ENG-VER 1: CEBUANO LANGUAGE
Credit Unit : 3 units

This course introduces students to a formal study of the linguistic elements of the Cebuano language.

ENG-VER 2: MARANAO LANGUAGE
Credit Unit: 3 units

This course is designed for students to formally study the linguistic elements of Maranao language.
ELECTIVES

ENG 59.1: THE LITERATURE OF PROTEST in the PHILIPPINES

The element of protest is the centerpiece in this study of selected literary texts written by Filipinos during the periods of foreign colonization and dictatorial rule in the Philippines.

ENG 96.8: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

This course exposes students to the principles and best practices in teaching literature, as well as giving them the guidelines in choosing quality literature for children (who are still forming their core values).

ENG 96.4: MINDANAO FOLK LITERATURE

This course exposes students to folk literary texts, written and oral, produced in and about Mindanao.

ENG 96.5: POSTMODERN CRITICISM

The course introduces students to the postmodern theories and approaches in analyzing literary texts produced from the late 20th century to the present.

ENGLISH 7.2: THE LITERATURES OF BRITAIN

This course is a survey of major works across all genres produced by writers from the British Isles, comprising of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.

ENG 96.6: WOMEN’S LITERATURE

This course studies the body of literature produced by women writers exhibiting distinct patterns of style, themes, and concerns.

ENG 96.7: THE LITERATURES of LATIN AMERICA

Set in South America and written by Latin Americans, the literary texts, representative of different literary-historical periods, constitute the works covered by this course.