Programs

Major

Certificate

Courses

Philippine Studies

PHST 10, Independent Study
Lab-52.5 to 157.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: ENGL 1A and (PHST 20 or PHST 30)

Independent Study allows individual students to explore academic interests in Philippine Studies through guided research projects. Students are required to either write a research paper or give a presentation on their work.

CSU
Units: 1
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable

UC transferable upon review

PHST 20, The Filipino Family
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188

This course examines traditional and contemporary characteristics of the Filipino family with an emphasis on the impact of colonialism on family dynamics in the Philippines and Filipino communities in the diaspora. Other issues to be discussed in the context of the Filipino family include emigration and immigration, belief systems and faith, the evolution of cultural values, intergenerational conflict, colonial mentality, colorism, sexuality, gender identities, and transnationalism.

UC/CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PHST 30, Philippine Society and Culture Through Film
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188

This course examines various cultural themes, sociopolitical, geographical, and historical factors of Philippine culture and society through cinema. Various cultural themes and sociopolitical influences on the Filipino experience through time discussed in this course include, but are not limited to the following: images of Filipinos, language distribution, interpersonal relations, ideas of self, belief systems, indigeneity, sex roles, the "Filipino Dream", immigration, and alienation.

UC/CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PHST 39A, Philippine Literature in Translation
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188

A survey of Philippine literature written in English and Filipino (in translation) from the early period to contemporary times. The course includes the study of folk literature, canonical texts as they relate to the development of national identity, and how social and historical contexts are presented through forms of literature such as poems, short stories, and essays. Themes and topics such as colonialism, national identity, emigration, political activism, and language.

UC/CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PHST 39B, Filipino Literature in the Diaspora
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188

A survey of literature written in English and Filipino (in translation) by Filipino authors in the diaspora. The course includes the study of texts as they relate to the development of Filipino identity in the diaspora, and how social and historical contexts are presented through forms of literature such as poems, short stories, and essays. Themes and topics such as post-colonialism, identity, immigration, political activism, language, and home.

UC/CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PHST 40, Contemporary Issues in the Filipino Diaspora
Lec-52.5 field trips P/NP Available

ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188

An interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary, social, political, economic, and cultural issues that significantly affect the Filipino community, including the following areas: identity development, immigration and acculturation, socioeconomic status, labor, racial and ethnic diversity, colorism, gender identity, political empowerment, cultural appropriation, and indigeneity.

UC/CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable

Formerly IDST40

PHST 42, Introduction to Philippine Arts
Lec-52.5 field trips P/NP Available

ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188

A survey of Philippine visual, performing, and material arts in the context of the country's historical and contemporary contexts, from precolonial to contemporary periods. We will explore the role of the arts in cultural and national and global identity construction and representations of Philippine aesthetics in the diaspora.

UC/CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable

Formerly IDST 42.

PHST 50, Filipinx LGBTQ+ Identities and Culture
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: Readiness for college-level English or ESL 188

This course examines the experiences of the Filipinx LGBTQ+ communities in the Philippines and the diaspora. Using an intersectional approach, topics include, but are not limited to, the histories and legacies of colonization, belief systems and faith, queer cultural values, family dynamics, sexuality, gender identities, struggles for acceptance, liberation, colonial mentality, and contemporary efforts of advocacy and activism by the queer Filipinx community.

UC/CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PIL 1, Elementary Filipino (Tagalog)
Lec-87.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: ESL 188 or (completion of any City College or university foreign language course)

Introductory course in Filipino (Tagalog) grammar, composition, and reading. Practice in speaking and understanding Filipino (Tagalog).

UC/CSU
Units: 5
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PIL 2, Continuation of Elementary Filipino (Tagalog)
Lec-87.5 P/NP Available

PREREQ.: PIL 1 or demonstration of PIL 1 exit skills.

Second semester course. Completion of elementary grammar, composition, and reading; Continued practice in speaking and understanding Filipino (Tagalog).

UC/CSU
Units: 5
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PIL 10A, Conversational Filipino (Tagalog)
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

Beginning Conversational Pilipino. Intensive instruction and practice in spoken Pilipino.

CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PIL 10B, Conversational Filipino (Tagalog)
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: PIL 10A

Intensive instruction and practice in spoken Filipino (Tagalog)

CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable
PIL 10C, Intermediate Conversational Pilipino
Lec-52.5 P/NP Available

ADVISE: PIL 10B

Intensive instruction and practice in spoken Pilipino.

CSU
Units: 3
Credit type: Credit/Degree Applicable