Course Description
Introductory Filipino for Heritage Learners Online, FILIPN W1X
This course is an elementary Filipino class designed for heritage learners, and the first course in a sequence (Filipino W1X and W1Y). Using the functional-situational approach, the course builds on students' passive vocabulary to harness four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students develop skills enabling them to: talk/write about the self, family, and community; talk/write about activities and interactions such as going to the doctor or shopping; read simple texts; and write short paragraphs. Combines real-time meetings using Adobe Connect and online learning.
Key Information
Credit: 7.5 quarter units /
5 semester units credit
UC Berkeley, South & SE Asian Studies
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Major Requirement: fulfills lower division requirement for SSEAS majors
UC Davis:
General Education: AH, WC.
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit
course is transferable under non-departmental title credit - lower division. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement.
UC Merced:
General Education: Satisfies GE Language Requirement
Units toward degree (see your adviser)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle - Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency; Sixth - NAHR GE; ERC Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency; Muir- May petition a full year of a language other than English for a GE sequence in Area III; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Fees
None
More About The Course
[Optional] 5 hours of contact time with the instructor per week through Adobe Connect. Additional conversational practice time with tutor provided.
Course Creators
Karen Llagas
Karen has an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and a BA in Economics from Ateneo de Manila. As a poet, she is a recipient of the second Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize, and her first collection of poetry, “Archipelago Dust,” was published by Meritage Press in 2010. She was also the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Karen Llagas is the lead intermediate teacher at UC Berkeley. Karen is co-author of 500 Tagalog Verbs , forthcoming at Tuttle. Before coming to Berkeley, Karen worked as a community language teacher at the Bayanihan Center. As a certified Tagalog interpreter, translator and linguist, she was lead Tagalog specialist for LinkedIn and Pinterest localization. Additionally, she is a highly ...
Karen has an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and a BA in Economics from Ateneo de Manila. As a poet, she is a recipient of the second Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize, and her first collection of poetry, “Archipelago Dust,” was published by Meritage Press in 2010. She was also the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize.