Understanding The Self Syllabus 2020 2021
Understanding The Self Syllabus 2020 2021
Pre-Requisite :
Course Description : The course deals with the nature of identity, as well as the factors and forces that affect the development and
maintenance of personal identity This course is intended to facilitate the exploration of the issues and concerns regarding
self and identity to arrive at a better understanding of one's self. It strives to meet this goat by stressing the integration of
the personal with the academic—contextualizing matters discussed in the classroom and in the everyday experiences of
students—making for better learning, generating a new appreciation for the learning process, and developing a more
critical and reflective attitude while enabling them to manage and improve their selves to attain a better quality of life.
presented in various forms and from various sources and forces that shape the self
f. Demonstrate knowledge of the methods of 4. Demonstrate critical and reflective thought
psychological inquiry; specifically, in analyzing the development of one's self and
g. Understand and explain the main methods of identity by developing a theory of the self
psychology,
Unpacking the Self
h. Critically evaluate the appropriateness of different
approaches to problem solving in the field, and 5. Explore the different aspects of self and
i. Apply this knowledge to make judgments and create identity
approaches to solving problems in an applied or an 6. Demonstrate critical, reflective thought in
employment context. integrating the various aspects of self and
identity
Strong Service j. Apply psychological theories and methods;
Orientation specifically, correctly apply the theories, principles, 7. Identify the different forces and institutions
concepts and skills in psychology in an employment that impact the development of various aspects
Passion to Life-Long context, of self and identity
Learning
k. Undertake research using the knowledge and skills in 8. Examine one's self against the different
Sense of Nationalism and psychology, and communicate the results of such aspects of self-discussed in class
Global Responsiveness research to both specialist and non-specialist
audiences. Managing and Caring for The Self
Community Engagement
l. Undertake further training for developing existing 9. Understand the theoretical underpinnings for
Adeptness in the skills and acquiring higher level competencies either how to manage and care for different aspects of
Responsible Use of through formal graduate education or in an the self
Technology employment context.
10. Acquire and hone new skills and 'earnings for
High Level of Leadership better managing of one's self and behaviors
and Organizational Skills
11. Apply these new skills to one's self and
Sense of Personal and r. Demonstrate understanding of the ethical dimension functioning for a better quality of life
COURSE PLAN
Surfacing students'
beliefs and concerns
regarding the self
Discussion of the
mechanics of the
course
Introducing the
requirements and
integrative final paper
Wee 1. The Definition of a. Understand the Lecture Agustine, AD 426 (2012). City of Quiz
k2 Self from Various importance of God, Books-XI-XXII. Translation Graded
Group discussions
knowing one’s self byWilliam Babcock. New City Press
Perspectives centering on Activity and
b. Recognize the similarities/difference recitation
Chirchland,P. 1989. A
different s of self-
perspective representations and Neurocomputational Perspective. Individual
a. Who Am I? A submission of
regarding the conceptualizations MIT Press
Philosophical essay on self.'
Journey to nature of man and the various Freud, Sigmund (2015) Retrieved How do I
Discovering the identified influences
c. Assess the from: understand
Self philosophical Individual Reflection: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/0 myself? What
Socrates, Plato and perspective of the 4/22/cartoon-commies/sigmud- led up to this
Identify 5 key events
St. Augustine, Rene self by critiquing self?
of their life that freud-2/
Descartes, Locke, the argument
greatly shaped who Self-reflection
Hume, Kant, Freud, given. Hume, David and the Problem of
there are through Rubric:
Ryle, Churchland d. Develop their own making a timeline Evil. Timothy Ministry. (2014).
and Merleau-Ponty Visual
answer to the Retrieved from:
all try to answer Philosophical Journal: Clarity-30
question, Who am http://www.timothyministry.com/201
the question: Who Self-reflection Project
I? 4/11/david-hume-and-problem-of- Content-40
are you? (scrap booking).
evil.html Creativity-
30
Kant, Immanuel. 1781. (J.M.D.
Meiklejohn Trans). The Critique of
Pure Reason. Three things I
learned about
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Concerning Human Understanding, this topic*
Pennsylvania State.
Plato.369 BC. Thaetetus
Ryle, G. (1949). The Concept of the
Anthropology, http://gulfnews.com/business/analys
Psychology, Western is/the-best-sort-of-investment-is-
& Oriental & Eastern always-on-the-elf-1..2186479
Thought) with regards Oswalt, A. (June7, 2010). Benefits of
to the “Self” Healthy High Self-Esteem. Self-
esteem. Retrieved from
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enefits-of-healthy-high-self-esteem/
Shupe, A. and Bradley, C. (2017).
Self, Attitudes and Emotion Work:
Western Social Psychology and
Eastern Zen Buddhism Confront
Each Other. USA, NY: Routledge
Winch, G. (October 15, 2014). 10
Things you didn’t know About Self-
esteem. Psychology Today.
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/b
log/the-squeky-wheel/201410/10-
things-you-didnt-know-about-self-
esteem
Wee 2. Unpacking The Self a. Understand the Lecture Anorexia. Retrieved March 10, 2018 Quiz
k6 – biological concept from
Group discussion and Pop-Up
7 of our physical https://www.beateatingdisorders.org
presentation: Who is Questions:
a. THE PHYSICAL selves
SELF beautiful? .uk/types/anorexia Essay Writing
b. Analyze the impact
Why do I Look Like Individual Arnold, M. Almost Anorexic. Enrichment
of culture on body
Myself? presentation: Photo Infographic. Retrieved from Activity: Me
image and self- Face-Off (comparing and My
Cultural Standards esteem. https://www.crchealth.com/eating-
of Beauty filtered and unfiltered Favorite
c. Celebrate beauty close-up picture of disorder-programs/almost-anorexic- Things (what
The Filipino in diversity yourself) and answer infographic/ these are and
Obsession with
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Beauty: The Case of these guide Axe, J. Diagnosing & Effectively what they say
Xander Ford questions: Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder. about me)
A Healthy Body -Are you happy with Infographic. Retrieved from OBE Project
Image, and Self- how you look in your https://draxe.com/body-dysmorphic- (Group work):
esteem in Peril
unfiltered photo? disorder/ Create a 3-
The Filtered Self Filtered photo? minute video
Body Dysmorphic Disorder:A quest campaign
Celebrating Beauty -What do you think
in Diversity for Perfection. (2012). Retrieved promoting
your answer say
You are Who You from body
about your self-
Look! Embracing https://www.medicalbag.com/grey- positivity.
esteem and
Your Physical Self matter/body-dysmorphic-disorder-a- Include
confidence?
concepts and
quest-for-perfection/article/472265
ideas
Writing a letter to the Brink, P. (1995). Social aspects of discussed in
unfiltered self. Open obesity. Luxembourg: Gordon and this unit.
up about struggles at Breach Publishers. Rubrics:
fitting in with
Cosmetic Surgery National Data Technical
society’s standard of
Bank Statistics. Retrieved from Soundness =
beauty. End the letter
https://www.surgery.org/sites/defaul 25pts.
by encouraging the
unfiltered self t/files/ASAPS-Stats2016.pdf Discourse=
Cummings, M. R. (2016). Human 25pts.
heredity: principles & issues. Organizatio
Australia: Cengage Learning. n of
thoughts
Fat Shaming and Body Shaming. and
Retrieved from content=
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/con 25pts.
tent/fat-shaming-and-body- Integration
shaming.html of Lessons/
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Concepts
discussed in
class =
25pts.
Wee b. THE SEXUAL a. Demonstrate Lecture/Interactive A MUST-READ: The Most Common Quiz
k8 SELF: Enter If You critical analytical discussion Sexually Transmitted Diseases Reflection:
Dare and creative Propose a metaphor (STDs) and Their Early Symptoms. Pop-Up
Development of thinking. to represent the Questions
DO NOT IGNORE! –
Secondary Sex things or concepts,
b. Appreciate the HealthTipsCentral. (Nov. 24, 2017). Enrichment
Characteristics you identify with the
complexity of Activity:
word/topic: Sex. Health tips Central, Source of Daily
Erogenous Zones human condition. Explain and
Group Health Tips. Retrieved on February justify the
Understanding c. Examine the
Human Sexual activity/Presentation: 26, 2018 from prosed
Response contemporary Riff off: groups will https://www.healthtipscentral.com/a metaphor
world from both take turns in singing
Diversity of Sexual -must-read-the-most-common- OBE Project
Philippines and songs with notion or
Orientation sexually-trasmitted-diseases-stds- (Group
global context of sex – work):
Sexually perspectives. implicit or explicit. and-their-early-symptoms-do-not-
Transmitted After the riff off, ignore-healthtipscentral/ STOP! AND
Infections (STIs) d. Take responsibility based on the songs GO: From
for knowing and sung, infer two Cole, A. C. (2009). Real Life Issues: what have
Family being Filipino. things: learned from
Planning/Contracep Sex & Relationships. UK: Trotman the chapter
tion e. Reflect critically on a. Possible factors and Company Limited on sexual
that contributed to self, propose
shared concerns.
the Contraception. (February 9, 2017). a campaign
creation/popularity Reproductive Health. Centers for or public
of the songs service
Disease Control and Prevention.
b. Possible effects it Retrieved on Feb. 23, 2018 from announcem
may have on its ent or
listeners, society, https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehe infographic
and culture alth/contraception/index.htm. that can
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What to Buy? will buy for a week. In Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Soundness
the worksheet, file Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave = 20pts.
The Calvinist
each either under
Principle Macmillan Discourse=
“necessary buy” or
The Marxist “Impulse buy” Benveniste, E. (1973). Problems in 20pts.
Perspective
Look at three print General Linguistics. Miami, FL:
Commodity Organizatio
advertisement,
Fetishism University of Miami Press. n of
identify the primary
element in each thoughts
Alienation Coward, R. & Ellis, J. (1977).
(celebrity endorser, and
Language and Materialism: content=
the product itself, or
something else), and Developments in Semiology and the 20pts.
write about both its Theory of the Subject. London, UK:
denotative and Integration
Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. of Lessons/
connotative meanings
Group Discussion Geertz, C. (1973). The Concepts
Interpretation of Cultures. New York, discussed in
Share at least five
things you consider or NY: Basic Books. class =
take into account first 20pts.
Kotler, P. (1980). Principles of
before buying Addition
Marketing. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Interview at least two al
Prentice Hall Research=
people from different
walks of life about 20pts
James, W. (1890). The Principles of
their opinion on
wealth and Psychology. Mineola, NY: Dover
consumption. Publications
Compare and
contrast their Marx, K. (1964). Preface to the
answers Contribution to the Critique of
Write about a Political Economy in Karl Marx;
material possession Selected Writings in Sociology and
that you have worked Social Philosophy. New York, NY:
hard to be able to
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Wee d. THE SPIRITUAL a. Understand the Lecture/Interactive Aguilar, F. (1998). Clash of Spirits: Quiz
k 12 SELF distinction between discussion The History of Powers and Sugar Reflection:
the belief in Pop-Up
Belief and Practices Group Presentation: Planter Hegemony on a Visayan
in Supernatural supernatural
Human Tableau (each Island. University of Hawaii Press. Questions
Being and Power beings and practice
group must create a
of religion. Enrichment
human tableau of a Anthony, D. (2017). Religious Activity: How
The Practice of
Religion b. Distinguish the scene involving does your
Beliefs in the Philippines. Retrieved
different ways by supernatural powers: membership
The Concept of which culture and from:
a. A group of in the religion
Dungan-Spirit or people understand https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ shape you?
Soul nocturnal
dungan, spirit or religious-beliefs-in-the-
creatures scaring
soul. OBE Project:
Rituals and people philippines.html Religious
Ceremonies: Why c. Appreciate the
b. Several Cannell, F. (1999). Power and Understandin
do we do them? function of rituals
supernatural g (To broaden
Religion, magic and and ceremonies. Intimacy in The Christian
spirits at war the mind in
Witchcraft d. Differentiate Philippines. Cambridge University understanding
c. Wedding of spirits
Finding and religion, magic and Press different
witchcraft. Think-Pair-Share: religion and
Creating Meaning
Compare and Celino, S. (1990).Death and Burial religious
e. Search and contrast two different Rituals and Other Practices and practices).
speculate on the
religions
meaning of life and Beliefs of the Cordillerans. Participates in
what makes them (Dissertation). University of Baguio. or observe
unique for an keenly a
individual. Johnson, Carina L., (2006). religious ritual
Idolatrous Cultures and the Practice that you don’t
practice in
of Religion. Journal of the History of your own
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Wee e. THE POLIICAL a. Appreciate the Lecture/Interactive 1987 Philippine Constitution Quiz
k 13 SELF: The Filipino complexity of the Discussion
Citizen human condition. Diokno, MS (1997). Becoming a Reflection:
Individual Simulation: Pop-Up
Seeking the Filipino b. Interpret the I am a Filipino? Filipino Citizen. In Perspective on
Questions (1-
Identity human experience Citizenship and Democracy. UP
Draw a caricature of a 5)
from the political Third World Studies Center. 17-38
Historical typical Filipino male
perspective. OBE Project:
background – Indio and female. Divide
Ethnicity in the Philippines, (2016). Deconstructi
to Filipino c. Develop a the body in vertical
consciousness for line. On the left side Retrieved from sites.google.com ng the
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Democracy – From the Filipino of the body, identify March, J and Olsen J. (1995). Philippine
Theirs to Ours Identity, values, the negative qualities Democratic Governance. New York: National
traits, community of a Filipino. Include Anthem
Perception of a The Free Press
Filipino’s Role in and institutional also a characteristic “Lupang
Democratic Setting factors that will show a bad Rusen, K., (2017). Fundamentals HInirang” (to
citizen. On the right, make people
Filipino Citizenship d. Establish a Duties, Corporate Responsibility
identify the positive feel and have
vs. Me, Family, democratic culture
qualities and add Retrieved from: a deeper
Institution, Cultural e. Take responsibility characteristics that http://indiacsr.in/fundamental- understandin
Citizenship for knowing and will show a good g of the
being a Filipino duties-corporate-responsibility/
Philippine Political citizen. Philippine
Culture – A problem f. Examine from Taft, H. W. (1902), The Philippine national
Group Discussion:
of variation contemporary anthem
How can I be a Good Islands. An Address before the New
world from both through your
Movement Towards Citizen? York Chamber of Commerce. New
Philippine and posts)
the Common Good York
global perspective Rubrics:
Developing a Zialcita, F. (1997). Barriers and
Democratic Culture Visual
Bridges to a Democratic Culture. In Clarity=30
Perspectives on Citizenship and Content
Democracy. UP Third World Studies =40
Center. 39-68 Creativit
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Wee f. THE VIRTUAL a. Explore the Lecture/ Interactive Cover, R. (2016). Digital Identities: Quiz
k 14 YOU: The Self in different aspects of Discussion Creating and Communicating the
the Cyberspace self and identity Graded
– Individual sharing: Online Self. Massachusetts: Activity and
15 The Other I: Love in b. Demonstrate Academic Press recitation
Share a memorable
the Time of Social critical, reflective
communication
Media thought integrating Crossman, A. (2018). A Biography of Reflection:
encounter for each
the various aspects Pop-Up
Reality as social networking Erving Goffman. Retrieved from
Abstraction of self and identity Questions (1-
sites that has https://www.thoughtco.com/erving-
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k 17 Caring for the the importance of Discussion Toward a Unifying Theory of
Self by Setting goals Graded
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goal will make it
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