Department of English
School of Humanities
Ateneo de Manila University
UNDERGRAD ELECTIVES
First Semester 2013-2014
LIT 112.1 CLASSICAL TO MODERN LITERARY CRITICISM
MWF, 3:30-4:30pm (For Lit Majors Only)
Ms. Charlene Diaz
This class is an introduction to literary criticism from five
Western periods: the Classical Age, the Middle Ages and
the Rennaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the
Romantic Period, and the Modern Age.
Lit 126.1 WESTERN LITERATURE I: THE ANCIENT WORLD
TO THE RENAISSANCE
Section A – WED, 4:30-7:30pm (Lit Majors Only)
Dr. Vincenz Serrano
Section B – MWF, 2:30-3:30pm
Dr. Edward Ruiz
Section C – MWF, 3:30-4:30pm
Ms. Mayel Martin
A survey of the literature of the Western World produced
between the 10th century BC and the late 17th century,
including representative poetry, drama, prose fiction, and
non-fiction from the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and
the Renaissance.
LIT 127.1 THIRD WORLD LITERATURE I
Section A – MWF, 3:30-4:30pm (Lit Majors Only)
Mr. Maximino Pulan, Jr.
Section B – TTH, 7:30-9:00am
Mr. Miguel Lizada
Section C – THU, 4:30-7:30pm
Ms. Annette Soriano
A survey of African, Asian, and Latin American literature
from antiquity to the 1700’s, focusing on works selected
primarily for their ability to illustrate the strong influence
of colonialism.
LIT 136 CREATIVE WRITING II: FICTION
TUE, 4:30-7:30pm
Dr. Edgar Samar
A creative writing workshop under the direction of a
writer with guided writing, discussion, and analysis of the
students’ original short stories, novellas, and novels.
LIT 138 CREATIVE WRITING III: NON-FICTION
TUE, 4:30-7:30pm
Dr. Laurel Fantauzzo
LIT 138 is a creative writing workshop conducted under
the direction of a guest writer. The course guides the
writing of, discusses, and analyzes the students’ original
works of non-fiction such as personal essays, journals,
and travelogues.
LIT 143 CLASSICAL DRAMA
MWF, 9:30-10:30am
Dr. Edward Ruiz
LIT 143 is a survey of representative works of drama from
the Classical Age. The course focuses on the works of
major Greek and Roman dramatists such as Aeschylus,
Euripides, and Sophocles.
LIT 146 SHAKESPEARE: COMEDIES
MWF, 1:30-2:30pm
Mr. Exie Abola
An introduction to Shakespearean comedy and historical
dramatic works, with emphasis on the texts as poetical
drama; historical and biographical materials will be used
where relevant.
LIT 189 EUROPEAN LITERATURE
MWF, 11:30-12:30pm
MS. MARY THOMAS
An introduction to the major European writers from the
Ancient World to postmodernist times.
LIT 191.7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FICTION
SAT, 8:00-11:00am
Mr. Danilo Francisco Reyes
A reading course on representative fictionists and their
selected novels and short stories. It presents a historicliterary survey of major issues in fiction studies and the
fundamental debates, arguments, problems, and
achievements in this genre.
LIT 193 CULTURAL STUDIES
WED, 5:30-8:30pm
Dr. Oscar Campomanes
This class acquaints and arms students with foundational
knowledge in the body of Cultural Studies theory,
focusing on the seminal work of Raymond Williams and
Stuart Hall in the context of their antidisciplinary work in
literary, cultural, media and communication critique and
subsequent
institutional
transformations
and
institutionalizations ushered by their prolific and
rigorously argued efforts and theoretical insights. We first
review the classical-marxisant underpinnings of Cultural
Studies especially around the culture concept; next, we
dwell at length on the problem of culture’s relationship of
determination and ‘separation’ with ‘society’ in NeoMarxism and New Left politics and its notional
transformations across the disciplines (esp. in cultural
anthropology, historical sociology, and literary critique);
and then assess the categorical centrality that it acquires
in the context of late-modern media and communication
studies. We conclude, as well as parallel, this
consideration in the provenance and global spread of
Cultural Studies theory and practice, with a brief but
focused look on emergent Philippine Cultural Studies
work including some of its untheorized antecedents and
expressions. Projects undertaken in this class shall
attempt to manifest and operationalize evolved
knowledge in Cultural Studies theory through student
exposure to (or immersion in) contemporary cultural
production and practice in literary, media and other
discursive realms/formations.
LIT 193.23 WRITING SEMINAR: DRAMA
WED, 1:30-4:30pm
Mr. Glenn Mas
Lecture and discussion on the reading and writing of plays
for radio, stage, screen or television as well as on a
variety of subject matters from the point of view
of practitioners of that genre.
LIT 193.31 LITERATURE AND IDEAS III: PIERRE BOURDIEU
AND LITERARY STUDIES
TTH, 12:00-1:30pm
Ms. Alona Guevarra
The class provides an introduction to the renowned
French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu’s contribution to
literary studies through a thorough discussion of his main
concepts of habitus, capital, field and symbolic power.
The relevance of Bourdieu’s method in the understanding
of the current transnational turn in literary studies will be
established.
LIT 193.35 LITERATURE AND IDEAS III: LITERATURE AND
BLACK STUDIES
MWF, 12:30-1:30pm
Dr. Jocelyn Martin
This course introduces students familiar with postcolonial theory to Literature, culture and Black Studies.
Proposed is a panorama of ideas ranging from the
Negritude movement (Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor);
African-American double-consciousness and slavery
(W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass); Caribbean diasporic
black identity (Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy); women and
blackness; epidermal stereotype, psychiatry and
Bleaching Syndrome (Frantz Fanon, Ronald Hall);
representation of blackness in media and museums
(Birmingham school) and, finally, the black tradition in
music from negro spirituals to Michael Jackson. All such
issues will be discussed alongside Philippine literature
and Filipino views on epidermal colour.