Tuesday, September 01, 2026

DS 112 brochure (political economy of nutrition)

Form a group of five responsible members.
Exercise collective leadership and accountability.
Produce an advocacy brochure (accordion format) about political economy of nutrition.
Situate the context in the Philippine and Third World setting.
Include statistics and stories/numbers and narratives/metrics and meanings in your data.
Use a combination of paragraphs, bullets, tables, vignettes, Venn diagrams, editorial cartoons, photos, calligrams, pictograms, acronyms, reflective questions, and direct quotes, among others.
Provide an appropriate title with political economy of nutrition as the subtitle.
Display your names prominently.
Employ the expose-oppose-propose format in framing your advocacy brochure.
Use at least 25 references for this task (20 from your own research and 5 from the syllabus).
Use a QR code in listing your references to maximize the available space.
Avoid using heavy background colors to save ink when printing the brochure.
Ensure that all elements in your brochure will form a coherent whole.
Ensure also the logical sequence of the presentation.
Upload this on September 7 (Monday) in the designated Google folder to be set up by Mr Rosani.
Submit a printed copy during our face-to-face session.

Monday, August 31, 2026

DS 121 brochure (political economy of poverty)

Form a group of four responsible members.
Exercise collective leadership and accountability.
Produce an advocacy brochure (accordion format) about political economy of poverty.
Situate the context in the Philippine setting.
Include statistics and stories/numbers and narratives/metrics and meanings in your data.
Use a combination of paragraphs, bullets, tables, vignettes, Venn diagrams, editorial cartoons, photos, calligrams, pictograms, acronyms, reflective questions, and direct quotes, among others.
Provide an appropriate title with political economy of poverty as the subtitle.
Display your names prominently.
Employ the expose-oppose-propose format in framing your advocacy brochure.
Use at least 25 references for this task (20 from your own research and 5 from the syllabus).
Use a QR code in listing your references to maximize the available space.
Avoid using heavy background colors to save ink when printing the brochure.
Ensure that all elements in your brochure will form a coherent whole.
Ensure also the logical sequence of the presentation.
Upload this on September 7 (Monday) in the designated Google folder to be set up by Ms Villarba.
Submit a printed copy during our face-to-face session.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

DS 112 (Global South Studies) poster quote

Form a group of five members.
Quote a 2-3 liner passage from any material about the Global South.
Deliberate and choose carefully and intently.
Exercise collective leadership.
Render the text in readable font and format.
Render the presentation in landscape format.
Provide an appropriate and creative title.
Render the title in calligram format.
Refer to this sample set of calligrams, and not the convoluted ones:
Designer Turns Everyday Words Into Clever Logos With Hidden Meanings
Provide a border in the poster.
Provide an appropriate layout, design, and color scheme.
Ensure that all elements form as a coherent whole.
Edit thoroughly.
Avoid design that will consume too much ink when printed.
Double check the printed version for possible errors and lapses.
Bolden keywords and/or phrases but only sparingly.
Cite the source in APA format and place it in the lower portion of the poster.
Encode the name of group members in alphabetical order.
Present all the information in the front page of the poster.
Be guided by this set of grading criteria: chosen quote, layout and design, presentation, and Q&A (25% each).
Choose a representative to discuss the quoted passage.
Limit the oral presentation to one minute only.
Avoid being a free-rider in your group.
Upload in the designated Google folder to be setup by Mr Rosani on Thursday (August 20) at 8 PM sharp.
Request Ms Rosani to compile the set of poster entries for purposes of screen sharing and presentation on Friday (August 21).
Request Ms Nery and Ms Florido to assist Mr Rosani in deciding the logical sequence of the presentation.
Study all the posted entries and prepare for a graded recitation.
Submit a printed version of the poster during our soon-to-be-determined face-to-face session. 

DS 121 (Poverty Studies) poster quote

Form a group of five members.
Quote a 2-3 liner passage from any material about poverty.
Deliberate and choose carefully and intently.
Exercise collective leadership.
Render the text in readable font and format.
Render the presentation in landscape format.
Provide an appropriate and creative title.
Render the title in calligram format.
Refer to this sample set of calligrams, and not the convoluted ones:
Designer Turns Everyday Words Into Clever Logos With Hidden Meanings
Provide a border in the poster.
Provide an appropriate layout, design, and color scheme.
Ensure that all elements form as a coherent whole.
Edit thoroughly.
Avoid design that will consume too much ink when printed.
Double check the printed version for possible errors and lapses.
Bolden keywords and/or phrases but only sparingly.
Cite the source in APA format and place it in the lower portion of the poster.
Encode the name of group members in alphabetical order.
Present all the information in the front page of the poster. 
Be guided by this set of grading criteria: chosen quote, layout and design, presentation, and Q&A (25% each).
Choose a representative to discuss the quoted passage.
Limit the oral presentation to one minute only.
Avoid being a free-rider in your group.
Upload in the designated Google folder to be setup by Ms Villarba on Thursday (August 20) at 8 PM sharp.
Request Ms Villarba to compile the set of poster entries for purposes of screen sharing and presentation on Friday (August 21).
Request Ms Cuyugan and Ms Pamittan to assist Ms Villarba in deciding the logical sequence of the presentation.
Study all the posted entries and prepare for a graded recitation.
Submit a printed version of the poster during our soon-to-be-determined face-to-face session. 

Saturday, August 15, 2026

DS 121 reviewer for the recitation (matching type with justification of your answer)

1. gendered manifestation of intergenerational poverty
2. bridges theory and practice
3. my DS 121 professor
4. common misconception about poverty
5. situational poverty
6. negative circularity
7. bakwet
8. upcoming NSSC theme
9. "rootless growth"
10. jobs and ___


a. income-centric
b. episodic poverty
c. yawning gap between the rich and the poor
d. deterritorialized
e. vicious cycle
f. DCA
g. context
h. poverty experienced by the grandmother, mother, and down to the (grand)daughter 
i. examining poverty through the social science lens
j. justice

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

DS 100 April 21 political cosplay

Form a group of three members.
Choose a political cosplay topic from the list provided below.
Avoid duplication.
Be ready to present live on Tuesday (April 21).
Assign one political cosplayer to represent your group.
Take note that a simple improvisation for the cosplay will do. Whatever you have around that is readily available will suffice. No need to spend anything for this task.
Provide an appropriate instrumental background music. 
Follow this format in the live presentation:
(1) group members introduction 
(2) mention of the chosen topic (c/o the group leader)
(3) very brief discussion about the topic (c/o the group leader) - less than 1 minute
(4) mention of the cosplay character (c/o the group leader)
(5) cosplay speech/soliloquy (c/o the cosplayer) - less than 45 seconds
Submit a 1/4 sheet of paper bearing your names, chosen topic, and cosplay character.

Prepare a counterpart single slide PPT output for submission in our designated Google Drive to be set by our class coordinator on Monday (Ms. Villarba).
Render this output in a single slide PPT presentation (featuring the cosplayer at the left side and a quoted passage about the topic at the right side). Do not forget to cite the source of the quoted passage.
Do not forget to provide the title in your slide with this format: chosen topic: cosplay character (e.g., VANDANA SHIVA).
Upload this counterpart output on Monday night for purposes of consolidation and projection during the presentation on Tuesday.

Research, rehearse, and present well.

Topics to choose from:
- Gross National Happiness
- Vandana Shiva
- Slow food philosophy
- Slow city movement
- Gandhian economics
- Buddhist economics
- wu-wei
- Liberation theology
- feminist peace research
- critical disability studies
- Cuban social medicine
- Ubuntu
- ecological Marxism
- critical museology
- countermapping






Thursday, April 09, 2026

DS 100 (Critical Education for Development)

Multilevel sentence outline by group of three members (for uploading on Monday and for printed submission and Tuesday) featuring the progressive ideas about education of the following thinkers (all):

- Paulo Freire
- Michael W. Apple
- Henry Giroux
- Ivan Illich
- bell hooks
- Renato Constantino

Instructions: bond paper, portrait format, maximum of 3 pages (excluding the references), with in-text citations, with appropriate title and subheadings, key ideas underlined and/or boldened, minimum of 18 references

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Creative book review in the form of an e-booklet (DS 100)

Convene the members of your book project.
Be sure that you have read and studied your chosen material.
Submit an e-booklet featuring/inspired by the main points and supporting arguments by the author(s).
Consider this task also as a form of book review.
Ensure that all the elements in your output form a coherent whole.
Provide appropriate subheadings per page.
Observe proper citation of sources (i.e., texts and photos)
Upload the output in the designated Google Drive to be setup by Ms. Villarba on April 21 (Tuesday).
Follow the correspondence of pagination and content below.

Cover page - alternative book cover and alternative book title (no AI please)
Page 1 - short preface (by the group)
Page 2 - table of contents
Page 3 - definition of terminologies (3-5 entries, drawn straight from the book)
Page 4 - social calligram (3 entries)
Page 5 - political haiku (3 entries, with a title for each entry, English and/or Filipino) 
Page 6 - quoted passage (3 entries, bolden the key phrases)
Page 7 - Venn diagram (1 entry, based on two/three contending ideas/forces)
Page 8 - concept map (1 entry)
Page 9 - puzzle (5 across, 5 down; with answer key)
Page 10 - original political meme (1 entry, inspired by the book)
Page 11 - politico-ideological analysis of the material (mini-essay, Filipino/English, 300 words only)
Page 12 - original editorial cartoon (based on the development/policy issue in question)
Page 13 - acrostic (based on a central concept)
Page 14 - five guide questions (inspired by the book)
Page 15 - flexipage (Note: Decide as a group about the content of this page.)

Page 16 - references
Page 17 - group members' profile

DS 141 political cosplay

Form a group of three members.
Choose a political cosplay topic from the list provided below.
Avoid duplication.
Be ready to present live on Tuesday.
Assign one political cosplayer to represent your group.
Take note that a simple improvisation for the cosplay will do. Whatever you have around that is readily available will suffice. No need to spend anything for this task.
Follow this format in the live presentation:
(1) group members introduction 
(2) mention of the chosen topic (c/o the group leader)
(3) very brief discussion about the topic (c/o the group leader) - less than 1 minute
(4) mention of the cosplay character (c/o the group leader)
(5) cosplay speech/soliloquy (c/o the cosplayer) - less than 45 seconds
Submit a 1/4 sheet of paper bearing your names, chosen topic, and cosplay character.
Research, rehearse, and present well.


Prepare a counterpart single slide PPT output for submission in our designated Google Drive to be set by our class coordinator on Monday (Ms. Inoferio and Ms Fan).
Render this output in a single slide PPT presentation (featuring the cosplayer at the left side and a quoted passage about the topic at the right side). Do not forget to cite the source of the quoted passage.
Do not forget to provide the title in your slide with this format: chosen topic: cosplay character (e.g., HEALTH HUMANITIES).
Upload this counterpart output on Monday night for purposes of consolidation and projection during the presentation on Tuesday.

Topics to choose from:

Ambulansiya-de-paa
Commodification of body parts
Medical tourism
One health
Medicalization of aging
Medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth
Medicalization of hunger
Barefoot doctors
Juan Flavier
Ethnomedicine
Lactation activism
Philippine Alliance of Patient Organization (PAPO)
Medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Health humanities
Og Uhog
Photo voice (in health)
Alternative Budget Initiative (Health Cluster)
Thy Womb (film)



DS 112 brochure (political economy of nutrition)

Form a group of five responsible members. Exercise collective leadership and accountability. Produce an advocacy brochure (accordion format)...