Pamantasan NG Cabuyao College of Education Arts and Sciences
Pamantasan NG Cabuyao College of Education Arts and Sciences
A premier educational institution of higher learning, developing globally-competitive and value-laden professionals and leaders instrumental to G – God centeredness
community development and nation building. E - Excellence
N - Nationalism
MISSION E - Environment Friendliness
As an institution of higher learning, PnC is committed to equip individuals with knowledge, skills and values that will enable them to achieve R - Responsibility
their professional goals and provide leadership and service for national development. O - Orderliness
U - Unity
PnC Graduate Attributes S - Service to Others
1. Professional Competence
2. Communication Skills
3. Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
4. Lifelong Learning Skills
5. Interpersonal Skills
6. Productivity
7. Social and Ethical Responsibility
6. Demonstrate a variety of thinking skills in planning, monitoring, assessing, and reporting learning processes and outcomes
7. Practices professional and ethical teaching standards sensitive to the local, national, and global realities
8. Pursue lifelong learning for personal and professional growth through varied and experiential and field – based opportunities
7.LEARNING PLAN:
In order to achieve the outcomes of this course, learners will go through this learning plan:
Week Topics Course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO) Learning Activities (TLA) Assessment Tasks (AT)
Week Discussion of PnC Mission Vision Familiarity with the PNC vision/mission and core values Mini-Lecture: Why rules are
1 Program Outcomes, Course Outcomes important to social beings
Course Orientation and Policies
Weeks I. Introduction
1-2
1. Thinking about cities relationally At the end of these weeks, the pre- service teacher (PST) should be able to:
Informal small group discussion: Recitation
2. Unsettling Cities, Cities of
a. discuss the meaning of urban geography; and Why urban geography?
Connection and Disconnection
b. explain the role of urban geography in understanding cities.
Lecture & Discussion: Written Quiz
-What does it mean to think
about a city relationally?
Individual Output Presentation
-What are some of the (Web based research about a city)
ambivalent tension about cities
that you have noted in your
everyday life? Graded Group
Report: Students will form
Web-based research: groups of 3-5. Each group
Week Topics Course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO) Learning Activities (TLA) Assessment Tasks (AT)
6 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Weeks IV. Diversity and Spatial
7-8 Differentiation in the City
Week Topics Course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO) Learning Activities (TLA) Assessment Tasks (AT)
At the end of these weeks, the pre- service teacher (PST) should be able to:
1. Movement and Settlement in the a. explain the diversity and spatial differentiation in the City; and Class Lecture/Discussion: Recitation
City b. analyze the political, economic, cultural, and social factors underlying the How are identities and space
2. Political, economic, cultural and city movements of people. connected? Written Quiz
social factors of city movements
and settlement Term Paper:
Locate information on the Individual Output Presentation (term
ways in which immigrants paper about immigrants transfer in
have spatially located and the city)
the reasons behind the
transfer in the city.
Specifically look into the
correlation of economic
factors` and migration from
provinces into the cities
Week V. Spatial Pattern and
9 Segregation
At the end of these weeks, the pre- service teacher (PST) should be able to: Class Lecture/Discussion
a. define spatial pattern and segregation; What ways do different Recitation
1. The City, and Urban Sprawl
2. Observing Spatial Patterns b. illustrate how groups separate and distance themselves from each other; groups separate and
and distance themselves from Written Quiz
c. discuss what is a city and urban sprawl. each other?
12 MIDTERM EXAMINATIOM
Weeks VII. The Scale of Urban At the end of these weeks, the pre- service teacher (PST) should be able to:
12-13 Governance a. explain what is city politics;
b. discuss the different issues attached to urban development; Class Lecture/Discussion Recitation
1. City Politics and the c. present an economic map which depicts the diverse city politics o Environmental
Environment governance in the 20th as compared to the 21st century; and Politics and Written Quiz
2. City Politics and governance d. explain how politics shaped the progress of the city and the challenges issues of
they face. Urban
in the 20th and 21st Century
Development
; Output 1:
o Theories of Urban To come up with a
Politics comparative
Class Activity 1: analysis of the
What initiatives have different cities
your city taken to ’initiatives to be
be socially and socially and
environmentally environmentally
sensitive sensitive
Output 2:
Class Activity 2: Comparative Analysis of
Look up information on different types of
the type of governance governance structure(s) to
structure(s) that are in place determine
in your city institutionalized channels
through which decisions are
made
Class Activity 3:
List down known politicians Output 3:
in the city and their Compilation of different
contributions to the autobiography of politicians
o progress of the and their contributions to
the city
city.
2. Components of
Neoliberalism a. explain the meaning of neoliberalism; What are the existing policies Recitation
3. Cities and Economic b. discuss the components of neoliberalist discourse; and and programs that are affecting
Written Quiz
Change c. present an economic map on how the cities actually played a role in and have affected the cities?
constituting such as programs and policies as well as altering them. A rubric will be given for
What are the components of the Debate on the presented
neoliberalist discourse and issue
activities, and how pervasive is
this political- economic
strategy? Presentation of output
Debate: (submission of the term paper
Neoliberalism and the City:
There is an alternative
Term Paper
Talk about your
cities and the
ways they are
being neo-
liberalized or
not
8. Referenc The course does not require a textbook, considering the dynamic and wide array of available resources in the library and online, but some references are suggested:
Duany, A., Plater-Zyberk, E., Speck, J. (2001). Suburban nation: The rise of sprawl and the decline of american dream . Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Graham, S. (2004). Cities, war and terrorism: Towards an urban geopolitics. John Wiley & Sons Publishers. Ltd. The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex,
P019 *SQ, UK. Graham, S. (2004). The cybercities reader. Psychology Press
Graham, S. & Marvin, S. (2001). Splintering urbanism: Networked infrastructures, technological mobilities and the urban condition . Psychology Press
Jonas, A. E. G, McCann, E., & Tomas, M. (2015). Urban geography: A critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons Publishers. Ltd. The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West
Sussex, P019 *SQ, UK. Kaplan, D., Holloway, S. R., & Wheeler, J. O. (2004). Urban geography. John Wiley & Sons Publishers. Ltd. The Atrium, Southern Gate,
Pacione, M. (2001). Urban geography: A global perspective. Taylor and Francis Imprint
Speck, J. (2013). Walkable city: How downtown can save america, one step at a time. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Verma, L. N. (2006). Urban geography. Rawat Publications
9. Suggested
Readings and www.slideshare.net
References www.slideplayer.com
10. Course CILO
As evidence of attaining the above CILO, the student has to do and submit the following:
Assessment
Assessment Activity Description and other details
Recitation, board To assess learner
work, quiz, seatwork understanding of the topic
content learners’ are
encourage to give insights of
the topic through recitations,
Board work will be used to
encourage learners to use
their skills. Quiz will be given
to assess if learners is
learning. Seatwork will also
be utilized to achieved the
full course outline
Major Exams To know and assess the
learners learning at the end
of the course outline given
Prelim, Midterm, and Final
however, lesson planning
will be their final output
instead of written
examination to check the
skills and knowledge of the
learners.
GRADING SYSTEM:
11. Grading
The final grade in this course will be composed of the following items and their weights in the final grade computation
System Assessment Item Grade Source Percentage
13. Committee
Members:
Members NESTOR G. PACUNO
14. Consultation The Faculty Consultation hours schedule is available at the COED office, and at the COED bulletin board.
Hours
Each time this course is offered, the class is initially informed of the course outcomes listed in this document, and they are included in the syllabus. Survey will be
15. Assessment
conducted at the end of semester for each student to rate how well the outcome was achieved. The choices provided use a 5-point Likert scale. The course
Plan for this instructor takes the result of the survey, combined with the sample student responses to activities and term exams corresponding to the course outcomes, and
reports this result to the concerned course cluster committee.
Course
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