Tuesday, April 08, 2025

e-booklet (major project) May 13

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).
Ensure that all the elements in your output form a coherent whole.
Provide appropriate subtitles 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. Julia Nery on Friday (May 13).
Follow the correspondence of pagination below.

Cover page - alternative book cover (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, based on the material)
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 - references
Page 15 - group members' profile

Monday, March 31, 2025

DS 126 (7 Ms poster exhibit for DSS Week 2025)

Kindly refer to the Google Drive provided in our FB group (divided between PS and DS).
Check if your haiku entry/entries qualified for the porter exhibit. 
If so, please layout your respective haiku(s) (i.e., one poster per haiku).
Follow the prescribed format below:
- Render it in landscape format.
- Provide a margin.
- Include this information in the upper left portion of the poster: 7 Ms of Dynasty Building (Coronel, 2007) - not too large
- Render the political haiku in this manner (large enough to be seen):

MYTH

Tunay Nga!

NN De Los Santos


Ang sabi-sabi –

Nakakapagpaupo

Ang sabi-sabi. 


- Provide an appropriate photo which is symbolic in nature.
- Cite the source of the photo right below it. 
- Place the haiku on the left and the photo on the right for standardization.
- Ensure that all elements in the poster are rendered as a coherent whole.
- Use 8x11 bond paper.
- Upload your output(s) in the designated Google Drive to be set up by Mr. Ison on April 4 (Friday). 
- Submit a printed copy of each haiku poster on April 8 (Tuesday). 

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

DS 123 short film

Form a group with 3 members.
Produce a 3-minute short film about your chosen topic/theme from the list below.
Use the Zoom platform for this purpose.
Use appropriate virtual background. You may also take photos for this purpose.
Ensure that everyone appears in the short film.
Think of a creative title and render the topic in parenthetical entry e.g., 'Enteng Saulado' (bluebook)
Upload the output in the designated Google Drive to be setup by Ma'am Inoferio on March 21 (Friday).

Topics/themes to choose from:
bluebook
UP oblation
armchair 
final exam
Lola Patola
poster
bidet
tambayan
freedom wall
prod work
Zoom
white board
library card
RH lobby
Incomplete
vending machine
baon
RTR (room-to-room)
ChatGPT
PDF
immersive reality 
outfit o output?
readings before feelings

DS 141 political economy of health (concept maps)

Form a group with 3 members.
Choose 12 topics from the list below.
Provide a concept map for each (plain format in MS Word only, black and white).
Use 4-5 references per topic.
Submit these deliverables on March 18.

Topics to choose from:
medicalization of society
social marketing approach to public health
social determinants of health
political determinants of health
hostile architecture
obesogenic society
diabesity
health humanities
health geography
economic burden of cancer
economic burden of HIV-AIDS
global health diplomacy
crossborder trade in health services
food desert
lactation activism (lactivism)
social pediatrics
livable cities
healthy canteen


DS 100 political cosplay - updated

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) - 2 minutes
(4) mention of the cosplay character (c/o the group leader)
(5) cosplay speech/soliloquy (c/o the cosplayer) - 30 seconds to 1 minute
Submit a 1/8 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. Nery).
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., WASH: WATER ACTIVIST).
Upload this counterpart output on Monday night for purposes of consolidation and projection during the presentation on Tuesday.


Topics to choose from:
Slow city movement
Slow food philosophy
Small is beautiful
Gandhian economics
Buddhist economics
Gross national happiness
Sufficiency economy
Care economy
Buen vivir
Solidarity economy
Feminist solidarity economy
Circular bioeconomy
Ubuntu


Tuesday, March 04, 2025

DS 123 mini-reporting and group test (Tuesday)

Form a group of six members.
Choose a color to represent your team.
Wear your team color.
Choose a subtopic from the list below.
Avoid duplication of topic.
Identify two group members to report.
Limit the mini-reporting to three minutes only.
Limit the presentation to five slides only.
Upload the slides in the designated Google Drive on March 10 (Monday). 
Be ready for a group quiz based on the Tolentino material.


Film literacy and criticism (Tolentino, 2017)
1. Film as art

2. Films as ideology
3. Film as technology
4. Film as commodity
5. Film as entertainment
6. Film as social practice
7. Film as dream machine

DS 100 study tasks for Friday

Slow city movement
Slow food philosophy
Small is beautiful
Gandhian economics
Buddhist economics
Gross national happiness
Sufficiency economy
Care economy
Buen vivir
Solidarity economy
Feminist solidarity economy
Circular bioeconomy
Permaculture
Ecofeminism
Ubuntu

Sunday, February 23, 2025

DS 141 topics

1. conventional medicine and Cuban social medicine
2. primary health care, secondary health care and tertiary health care
3. germ theory and social theory of disease
4. biomedicine and ethnomedicine
4. Michael Tan and Gideon Lasco
5. One health, planetary health and eco-health approach
6. alternative medicine and complementary medicine
7. curative medicine and preventive medicine
9. communicable diseases and noncommunicable diseases
10. clinical and communinity-based approach
11. allopathic and homeopathic medicine
12. private and public health care

DS 123

Film literacy and criticism (Tolentino, 2016)
1. Film as art
2. Films as ideology
3. Film as technology
4. Film as commodity
5. Film as entertainment
6. Film as social practice
7. Film as dream machine


DS 100 topics to choose from (choose 12)

1. positivist research vs. critical research
2. gross national product (GNP) vs. gross national happiness (GNH)
3. gigantism and small is beautiful
4. globalization from above vs. globalization from below
5. mode 1 research vs. mode 2 research
6. biomedicine vs. ethnomedicine
7. western psychology vs. Sikolohiyang Pilipino
8. discourse of representation vs. discourse of understanding
9. mainstream criminology vs. critical criminology
10. hegemonic map vs. countermap
11. mainstream geography vs. critical geography
12. knowledge management vs. knowledge management for development (KM4D)
13. mainstream science vs. citizen science
14. germ theory vs. social theory
15. mainstream psychology vs. critical psychology
16. mainstream mathematics vs. ethnomathematics
17. bourgeois journalism vs. alternative journalism
18. World Economic Forum vs. World Social Forum

Monday, February 10, 2025

DS 100

1. "unholy alliance"
2. power and control
3. development
4. value-free Social Science
5. social situatedness when the DS Program was established
6. fisherfolks and farm workers
7. comprehensive, integrated and critical tool of social analysis
8. subsistence level
9. critical praxis
10. dialectics

a. inquiry about social contradictions
b. self-reflection, reflective action, collective reflective action
c. political dictatorship and economic underdevelopment
d. a myth
e. poorest of the poor
f. hegemony
g. political economy
h. foreign elite and local bourgeois
i. "isang kahig, isang tuka"
j. "unfurl", "unfold"

Thursday, February 06, 2025

DS 100 study tasks

democratization
decentralization
decolonization
degrowth
deglobalization
demilitarization
denuclearization
disarmament
decarbonization 







Thursday, January 30, 2025

DS 100 study tasks

1. dirigisme
2. laissez-faire
3. globalization
4. deglobalization
5. necessary condition
6. sufficient condition
7. positive freedom
8. negative freedom
9. positive peace
10. negative peace

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

DS 100 TFA

Form a group of 5-6 members.
Produce a reviewer featuring your chosen topic from the list below.
Avoid duplication of topic.
Render the output in multi-level sentence outline.
Use at least eight references for this task.
Present the output using only the front page of a 1/2 bond paper (lengthwise).
Render the text using TNR font size 12.
Use the given topic as the title.
Bolden or underline key points.
Indicate the names of the group members.
Provide in-text citation (APA style).
Exercise collective leadership.
Print 30 copies to be distributed on Tuesday (February 4).
Upload the soft copy on Friday (January 31) in the Google Drive to be set up by Ms. Nery.
Refrain from being a free loader in group tasks.

Topics to choose from:
Modernization theory
Dependency theory
World systems theory
Neoclassical theory
Marxist theory
Postcolonial theory
Post-development theory

Tuesday, December 03, 2024

DS 112 recorded speech (alternative theories and approaches)

Present a recorded 3-minute speech about your assigned topic.
Situate it in the context of the Global South.
Provide an appropriate title.
Provide a corresponding audience-friendly PPT presentation.
Wear white or black.
Upload your output in the Google Drive to be setup by Ms. Buan on December 8 (Sunday).

Maranan - social suffering theory
Miguel - critical geography of race
Muros - standpoint theory
Norombaba - feminist standpoint theory 
Ocariza - muted group theory
Oliveros - postcolonial theory
Ramos - grounded theory
Rojas - digital humanities
Salonga - critical disability studies
Salvador - poststructuralism
Samson - critical legal theory
San Antonio - critical race theory
Sarmiento - queer theory
Sianghio - queer ecology
Sison - biopolitics
Sua - eco-criticism
Tan - critical pedagogy
Villanueva - posthumanism
Yao - feminist posthumanism

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

DS 112 tourism concept map

Produce an infographic about tourism.
Use 8-10 references for this task.
Use any or combination of the following perspectives/frame of analysis: cultural politics, economics, political economy, human geography, economic geography, critical geography, economic sociology, economic anthropology
Refer also to the Third World Resurgence's Rethinking Tourism.
Upload in the designated Google Drive to be setup by Ms. Buan on December 2 (Monday).
Submit a printed version on December 3.

Abuda, Alegre, Alihuddin, Cua
Arce, Arreza, Banaybanay
Botor, Bravo, Buan
Casino, Cheng, Chua
Daniel, Dayrit, De Guzman
Deloso, Dioko, Donato
Dumale, Ejera, Fajardo
Frange, Gonzales, Israel
Lajara, Lim, Longboan
Magat, Magsino, Maranan
Miguel, Muros, Norombaba
Ocariza, Oliveros, Ramos
Rojas, Salonga, Salvador
Samson, San Antonio, Sarmiento
Sianghio, Sison, Sua
Tan, Villanueva, Yao

DS 112 political economy of tourism cosplay (December 2)

Form a trio.
Assign a cosplayer to represent your team.
Assign someone from the team to discuss briefly your chosen topic (1 minute).
Introduce the team, topic, and featured cosplay character.
Present a monologue in relation to your cosplay character (30 seconds to one minute).
Submit a 1/4 sheet of paper containing the following information: topic, group members, and featured cosplay character.


Topics to choose from:
cave tourism
beach tourism
ecotourism
river tourism
micro tourism
mass tourism
sports tourism
slow tourism
dark tourism
culinary tourism
medical tourism
agricultural tourism
poverty tourism
cultural tourism
grief tourism
birth tourism
LGBTQ+ tourism
rail tourism
urban tourism
wellness tourism
religious tourism
volunteer tourism

emcees: Magsino and Banaybanay

DS 121 communicating poverty concept map

Form a group of four members.
Produce a concept map based on the three assigned reading tasks in module 4 (communicating poverty, poverty in the media, and poverty porn). 
Include one additional reference to further enrich your output.
Upload this in the designated Google Drive to be setup by Ms. Inoferio on December 2 (Monday).

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

SS 120 science communication speech (Nov 26)

Deliver an original speech about your assigned topic.
Limit the speech to three minutes only.
Introduce yourself properly.
Provide an appropriate title.
Use at least eight references for this task.
Provide one printed copy of the actual speech.
Prepare a counterpart audience-friendly PPT presentation.
Upload your PPT in the designated Google Drive to be set up by Mr. Ison on Nov 25 (Monday 9 PM)
Ensure that all elements of the speech and the corresponding PPT form a coherent whole.
Wear black or white.
Research, draft, rehearse, and present well.

Ison - microplastic 
Pait - science communication
Ramos - science communication in the PH
Reyes - qualitative social network analysis
Sambrano - science in popular culture
San Antonio - science and technology for the people
Sapin - Delphi method
Soriano - citizen science
Tanedo - people's science
Vicente - science journalism
Villarama - ethno-videography
Zepeda - science and technology for the people

emcee: Ison 

DS 121 communicating poverty speech (Nov 26)

Deliver an original speech about your assigned topic.
Limit the speech to three minutes only.
Introduce yourself properly.
Provide an appropriate title.
Use at least eight references for this task.
Provide one printed copy of the actual speech.
Prepare a counterpart audience-friendly PPT presentation.
Upload your PPT in the designated Google Drive to be set up by Ms. Inoferio on Nov 25 (Monday 9 PM)
Ensure that all elements of the speech and the corresponding PPT form a coherent whole.
Wear black or white.
Research, draft, rehearse, and present well.

Rivera - communicating poverty 
Rodellas - communicating poverty (global context)
Tan - communicating poverty (PH context)
Tolentino - poverty in the media
Torralba - depiction of urban poverty in media
Tumang - poverty pornography
Vallejo - covering poverty


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)...