There is a growing trend in higher education ensuring students’ holistic growth by offering colle... more There is a growing trend in higher education ensuring students’ holistic growth by offering college credit once a student can demonstrate competence. Higher education institutions are now trying to develop students through programs like University of the Philippines’ Revitalized General Education Program (RGEP). These general education courses provide students avenues for improving their core competencies their majors, to some extent, cannot provide. On the other hand, factors like gender and academic discipline affect the perception of students’ core competencies due to the circumstances that they present, i.e. stereotyping and discrimination. This research paper aims to see if such factors affect the perception of University of the Philippines Diliman freshman students’ core competencies. The research suggests that the freshmen’s competencies are homogenous and not significantly affected by the factors aforementioned. This paper will redound to the academe and university administrators as this presents conditions that reflect how effective the programs higher education institutions are pursuing.
The critical paper aims to define, in general, how Philippine literary texts represent power rela... more The critical paper aims to define, in general, how Philippine literary texts represent power relations, especially power struggles, within government organizations. This objective can be realized by answering the question, “How does F.H. Batacan’s novel Smaller and Smaller Circles represent the power relations within the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)?" This paper employs John Searle’s illocutionary speech acts analysis as linguistic approach to the text. Illocutionary speech acts fall under the broad category of intentional action. This is important and pertinent in the study as different features of speech acts employed by each character says something about his or her psychology, behavior, and intentions. The whole text is not be subjected under analysis not only to save time but also because most scenes and dialogues are not pertinent to the study. Dialogues that contain two or more officials under the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are included in the analysis.
There is a growing trend in higher education ensuring students’ holistic growth by offering colle... more There is a growing trend in higher education ensuring students’ holistic growth by offering college credit once a student can demonstrate competence. Higher education institutions are now trying to develop students through programs like University of the Philippines’ Revitalized General Education Program (RGEP). These general education courses provide students avenues for improving their core competencies their majors, to some extent, cannot provide. On the other hand, factors like gender and academic discipline affect the perception of students’ core competencies due to the circumstances that they present, i.e. stereotyping and discrimination. This research paper aims to see if such factors affect the perception of University of the Philippines Diliman freshman students’ core competencies. The research suggests that the freshmen’s competencies are homogenous and not significantly affected by the factors aforementioned. This paper will redound to the academe and university administrators as this presents conditions that reflect how effective the programs higher education institutions are pursuing.
The critical paper aims to define, in general, how Philippine literary texts represent power rela... more The critical paper aims to define, in general, how Philippine literary texts represent power relations, especially power struggles, within government organizations. This objective can be realized by answering the question, “How does F.H. Batacan’s novel Smaller and Smaller Circles represent the power relations within the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)?" This paper employs John Searle’s illocutionary speech acts analysis as linguistic approach to the text. Illocutionary speech acts fall under the broad category of intentional action. This is important and pertinent in the study as different features of speech acts employed by each character says something about his or her psychology, behavior, and intentions. The whole text is not be subjected under analysis not only to save time but also because most scenes and dialogues are not pertinent to the study. Dialogues that contain two or more officials under the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are included in the analysis.
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