PHILIPPINE HISTORY COURSE OUTLINE
LESSON ONE: Land and People
1. Introduction
2. Geographical Setting
3. The Filipino People: Common and Regional Traits
LESSON TWO: Early Filipinos—their environment and culture during the Stone Ages
1. Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures
2. Cagayan Man and Tabon Man—Their environment and culture
3. Pottery, weaving and the appearance of metals
LESSON THREE: Early Philippine Culture
1. Philippines and the Cultural Traditions of Asia
 Indianization of Southeast Asia
 Early Chinese influences in the Philippines
 Islamization of the Philippines
2. Political life of the early Filipinos
 Baranganic System
 The Datu and Sultan
 Judicial Processes
3. Economic life of the early Filipinos
 Ecological niches: their implications to the socio-economic life of the
early Filipinos
 Boat-building industry
4. Socio-cultural life of the early Filipinos
 Social Stratification
 Clothing and ornaments
 Writing, literature and time keeping
 Marriage customs
 Religious beliefs
Reading: The Pre-colonial Filipina
LESSON FOUR: The Filipino Communities and the Spanish Colonial System
1. Coming of the Spaniards
2. The Spanish Colonial Administration
3. Reduccion and the Colonial Landscape
Reading: The Colonial Townscape
4. Spanish economic institutions: their oppressive impacts
Reading: The Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Spanish Times
5. Social transformations under the Spanish regime
Reading: Pamana ng Simbahang Pilipino
The Colonial Filipinas
LESSON FIVE: Reactions to Spanish Colonialism—Revolts, Resistance, Reform and
Revolution—Weaving of national consciousness
1. Filipino Revolts and resistance against Spanish domination
2. Philippine Nationalism
 The Propaganda Movement
 Philippine Revolution
 Philippine-American War: Defending Philippine Independence
LESSON SIX: Political Development in the Philippines during the American Occupation
1. America’s Benevolent Assimilation and their Manifest Destiny
2. Filipinization Policy: Its implications to Filipino political participation
 Philippine Bill of 1902
 Philippine Assembly of 1907
 Jones Law of 1916 and the Philippine Senate
 Campaign for Philippine Independence (1919-1935)
 The Commonwealth Republic
3. Socio-economic transformations and the Americanization of the Filipinos
LESSON SEVEN: Philippines under attack—WW II and Japanese Imperialism
1. Brief history of WW II: Philippine Setting
Reading: Day of Valor
2. Japanese Occupation
3. Political, Economic, and Social Conditions
LESSON EIGHT: Independence and Nationhood; Authoritarianism and the EDSA
Revolution
1. Independence and The Third Philippine Republic
 Roxas Administration
 Quirino Administration
 Magsaysay Administration
 Garcia Administration
 Macapagal Administration
 Marcos Administration
2. Authoritarianism and Martial Law
Reading: Martial Law
3. Aquino Administration
Reading: The EDSA Revolution
4. Ramos Administration
5. Estrada Administration
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