Course Description

Advanced Filipino, FILIPN 101A

Students read and discuss essays on language, literature, and Phillippine society, and literary texts. Topics include language and the nation; poetry and discourse; language and ideology; and "pananalinghaga" (tropes/metaphors) in understanding society. The students choose whether they would like to go on a creative (poetry, fiction) or a research track (essay).

Key Information

Credit: 4.5 quarter units / 3 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:
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UC Davis:
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UC Irvine:
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UC Los Angeles:
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UC Merced:
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UC Riverside:
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UC San Diego:
Muir- May petition a full year of a language other than English for a GE sequence in Area III, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Humanities; TMC 1 course toward upper division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Revelle - Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency

UC San Francisco:
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UC Santa Barbara:
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UC Santa Cruz:
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Prerequisites

100A-100B or equivalent, or consent of instructor.

Course Creators

Karen Llagas
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 trained and provisionally certified CA Court Interpreter.
 
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 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 trained and provisionally certified CA Court Interpreter.
 
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. 

Maria Barrios-Leblanc
Maria Barrios-Leblanc has a Ph.D. in Filipino from the University in the Philippines. She is the author of more than a dozen books, among them, Tagalog for Beginners (Tuttle, 2011) and Intermediate Tagalog (Tuttle, 2015). Maria Barrios-Leblanc has a Ph.D. in Filipino from the University in the Philippines. She is the author of more than a dozen books, among them, Tagalog for Beginners (Tuttle, 2011) and Intermediate Tagalog (Tuttle, 2015).
Cynthia Agnes Aban
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