This course develops students’ communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them with opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and issues on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their choices, disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual, and/or web-based output for various purposes.

Art Appreciation is a three-unit course that develops students’ ability to appreciate, analyze, and critique works of art. Through interdisciplinary and multimodal approaches, this course equips students with a broad knowledge of the practical, historical, philosophical, and social relevance of the arts in order to hone students’ ability to articulate their understanding of the arts. The course also develops students‘ competency in researching and curating art as well as conceptualizing, mounting, and evaluating art productions. The course aims to develop students’ genuine appreciation for Philippine arts by providing them opportunities to explore the diversity and richness and their rootedness in Filipino culture.

This course allows the pre-service English teachers to explore the nature of the macro skills and the theoretical bases, principles, and methods and strategies in teaching and assessing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing. It aims to provide various strategies for pre-lesson, during lesson, and post lesson to develop research-based knowledge and principles in teaching the macro skills while using differentiated teaching to suit learners’ gender, needs, strengths, interests, and experiences. Also, they will be able to identify learning outcomes aligned with the learning competencies and provide timely, accurate, and constructive feedback to improve learners’ performance in the macro skills.

This course introduces the pre-service English teachers to the exploration of mythology and folklore from different countries to gain insights into people’s origin, desires, fears, instincts, and needs. With this, they will be able to demonstrate content and research-based knowledge and principles of mythology and folklore in English language teaching as the basis for their creative mythological presentations, narrative reports in folklore, and an enriched reading list of folkloric literature in the curriculum applicable to teaching and learning.

This course provides pre-service English teachers with opportunities to acquire extensive reading backgrounds in literature and allied fields needed in the understanding and evaluation of critical issues in contemporary and popular literature and genres. This course allows them to demonstrate their research based content knowledge and its relevance in the teaching learning process using various methods of literary analysis.