Course Description

Advanced Filipino, FILIPN W101A

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 and South East 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:
General Education: Fulfills College of Letters and Science Foreign Language
Major Requirement: fulfills upper division requirement for SSEAS majors

UC Davis:
General Education: AH, WC.

UC Irvine:
General Education: VIII - International/Global Issues
Major Requirement: fulfills 2 year foreign language requirement for Humanities majors

UC Los Angeles:
Major Preparation: COM LIT major, COM LIT minor (foreign langauge level 6); ENGLISH major/American Literature & Culture major (foreign language level 4)
Foreign Language requirement

UC Merced:
General Education: SSHA Humanities GE - Units toward degree (see your adviser)

UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units (UCRVELEC)

UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle - Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency; Sixth - 1 course NAHR GE; ERC Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency; Warren - Transfer students may use for UD noncontiguous GE depending on major; Muir- May petition a full year of a language other than English for a GE sequence in Area III; TMC 1 course toward upper division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; ERC Foreign Language Requirement - third semester/intermediate level or fourth quarter course required for proficiency;

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: CC

Prerequisites

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

Course Fees

None

Course Creator

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).
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