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Office of The Vice-Rector For Academic Affairs: University of Santo Tomas Department of Literature

The document provides details for a course on World Literatures offered by the University of Santo Tomas. The 3-credit course aims to develop students' ability to understand and appreciate world literatures in order to gain knowledge of human experiences and cultures. It also aims to inculcate values like respect, compassion, and a desire for justice. The course intends to have students discuss complexities in life and cultures through literature, distinguish literary styles and themes, interpret texts, and share insights from works. It will cover topics like self-discovery, reality versus allegory, transformation and self-worth, and finding meaning in the face of life's absurdities.

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University of Santo Tomas

Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs

Department of Literature
Course Plan in World Literatures
Course Title
Credit Units
Course Description

World Literatures
3

Course Code
Course Co/Pre-requisites

Lit 101A
NA

This course presents a survey of world literatures representing a gamut of human experiences as
exemplified in different literary types and forms.
This course intends to develop among the students the ability to read, understand and appreciate the
literatures of the world in order to deepen their knowledge of the complexities of human life and nature, and
to inculcate among them the respect for people and cultures, love of nature, desire for peace and the
passion for truth and justice, which will eventually, contribute to the enhancement of a compassionate,
competent and committed global Thomasian.

Institutional Intended
Learning Outcomes
Program Intended
Learning Outcomes
Course Intended
Learning Outcomes

The students are expected to:

Discuss the complexities of life, varieties of cultures and traditions, accepted norms and practices via
world literatures.
Distinguish and discuss the literary style and technique as well as the writers/poets vision of life and
theme exemplified in the text.
Interpret and analyze various literary texts.
Share significant human experiences highlighted in the literary works.
Transform literature into other artistic forms.

Preliminary Period

COURSE PLAN IN WORLD LITERATURES

UNIT 1: MIRROR ON THE WALL: TOWARDS SELF-DISCOVERY/RECOVERY

Course Code
(Lit 101)

Enduring Understanding

Essential Questions

Grasping the truth brings about clearer insights and

deeper understanding of ones real nature and purpose.

Why is it important to understand oneself?

How does one know his/her purpose in life?
How do we overcome/face lifes painful truths?

Week

Content
Standards

Demonstrate
understanding of
overtones and
nuances for literary
interpretation of a
confessional poem

Essential Learning
Declarative
Knowledge

Revealing ones own

self in
An Introductionby
Kamala Das

Functional
Knowledge

Intended
Learning Outcomes
(ILO)

Suggested
Teaching/
Learning
Activities (TLAs)

Assessment
Tasks (ATs)

Interpreting lines
expressed
connotatively

Show relationship
between the literal and
the intended meaning
of lines through text
analysis in
conjunction with the
authors background

Choral reading

Creative
production

Investigate on how the

persona as a Third
World woman reveals
her longing for love
and acceptance by
writing a confessional
poem

Student-teacher
interaction

Reporting on the
following:
Authors
background Status
of women in India

Film viewing

Reaction paper

Demonstrate
understanding of the
authors use of
allegory as
juxtaposed with
reality

Demonstrate
understanding of a
persons need of
physical and
psychological
transformation in
gaining self-worth

Demonstrate
understanding of the
authors use of

The Quest to be
Real in The
Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams

Beauty, Pain, and

Self-worth as
Echoed in
Songbirds of Pain
by Gary Kilworth

Discovery of Oneself
in Sonnet 29
by William

Drawing out
meanings of
symbolic
expressions

Recalling an
experience where
principles guide
ones decisions and
behavior

Justifying the
relationship
between language

Examine characters
dialogues, events, and
other characters
actions that lead to
the idea of reality
through a role playing

Dramatization

Generate fundamental
truths in life that have
somehow taken an
effect in ones own
personal life through a
reflection paper

Reflection Paper

Assess the characters

behavior by
determining the
surrounding
circumstances
contributory to their
decisions

Symposium

Reflect on the
inevitability of pain in
life by sharing an
incident that has
changed ones view of
life
Study the structural
form of the poem i.e.
meter, rhyme and
rhythm. Compare the

Group sharing

Artistic
presentation
(with rubrics to
be provided)

Research and
class
presentation
(with peer
evaluation)

Reflective
diary/journal

Reaction paper

DRTA (Directed
Reading and
Thinking Activity)

Dramatization

language and its

mechanics in making
sense of the
personas emotion

Shakespeare

Demonstrate
understanding of the
use of mythological
allusions and
philosophical ideas in
elucidating the basic
truths in life

The Essence of
Mans Existence
despite Lifes
Absurdities in
The Myth of
Sisyphus by
Albert Camus

and meaning

Showing the
relationships and
associations among
mythology,
philosophy, and
literary
compositions

versification involved
in the sonnet with a
rap song
Empathize with the
persona through a
sharing of personal
experiences on love
Discover authors use
of mythology in
bringing about certain
philosophical truth/s.
Discuss through group
sharing an assigned
research topic re
mythology and
philosophy
Discuss how one must
face the absurdities in
life by drawing a
comparison between
mythology and real life
situations as to how
people experience
happiness and
meaninglessness