HIST3375 The Philippines and Trans Pacific Connections
2020-2021年度 第二學期
語言英語
課程講師 Ian MORLEY ((852) 3943 7116 / ianmorley@cuhk.edu.hk)
助教 MONTERO Claudia Isabelle Violeta (claudia.montero@link.cuhk.edu.hk)
HIST3375 offers an examination of the evolution of Philippine society from the onset of Spanish colonization in the mid-1500s to the start of World War Two in Asia (in 1941). Granting an opportunity to grasp the development of the Philippines under Spanish and American colonial rule, the course places attention upon the nation’s capital city, Manila, a place where life has also been historically shaped by Chinese, Japanese, and native cultural influences. Focusing on elements of cultural, political, and urban history the course endeavours to explain how ‘the Philippine nation’ has historically unfolded, and why Manila, today a metropolis with a population in excess of 13 million people, has come to play such a dominant role in determining the nature of Philippine society prior to the country being granted independence in the late-1940s. Utilizing innovative teaching methods to enable students to critically understand the physical as well as cultural character of the city, and so the nation at large, a multidisciplinary approach is fostered so as to encourage learners to recognize and explain factors that have influenced Philippines civilization as it progressed from the “traditional” to the “modern”. Encouraging learners too to identify connections between the country and places elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, ultimately the course places the evolution of life in the Philippine Archipelago within the greater Asia-Pacific region. Taught by two professors at Brown University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong the curriculum is cut into two distinct sections: The Philippines pre-1898; The Philippines post-1898. Where possible a comparative analysis with the colonial development of Hong Kong will be provided so as to demonstrate, and explain, the different types and natures of colonial rule, culture, and development that took place in East Asia prior to the end of World War Two.
The course is designed with a number of expected learning outcomes:
- The learners to articulate in written form the association, both direct and indirect, between colonial governance and the nature of Philippine society.
- Students to convey how contexts both external and internal have shaped the narrative of development in the Philippines
- To recognize the alliance between the evolution of life in a capital city and the nature of society at large.
- To utilize eLearning so as to grant broad learning experiences.
- To train to use primary sources, including maps and other visual sources, in order to come to terms with how the form of urban environments reflect various cultural and political processes operating within Philippine society.
- To permit students opportunities to compare the nature and evolution of colonial societies in East Asia, namely to compare and contrast the Philippines with Hong Kong.
The curriculum for HIST4400C is as follows:
| Week 1 | Introductory Class |
| Week 2 | The Philippines and the Arrival of the Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish |
| Week 3 | Building the State: Spanish Colonization and Ethnic Groups |
| Week 4 | (e-Learning Class) Spanish Manila: A Transpacific Maritime Enterprise and America’s First Chinatown |
| Week 5 | The Rise and Ending of the Galleon Trade |
| Week 6 | (e-Learning Class) Understanding the Binondo, Manila’s Chinese Quarter |
| Week 7 | Nationalism inside the Spanish Empire: All Change in 1898: The Spanish-American War, The Rise of American Imperialism and the US Purchase of the Philippines |
| Week 8 | American Perceptions of the Philippines and the Building of the American Colonial State – with e-Lecture by Ms Nelly Fung |
| Week 9 | Redesigning Manila: The Role of City Beautiful Urbanism |
| Week 10 | Modernity in East Asia |
| Week 11 | The Virtual Fieldtrip of Manila, and Filipinization and the Widening Structure of the Colonial Government |
| Week 12 | Reading Week! NO CLASS! |
| Week 13 | The Road to Independence, and the Road to World War Two |
| Week 14 | The Post-Colonial and the Legacies of the Colonial Ages |
Students shall be given a term score based on:
- Participation – 30% of the total term score. This grade is given in relation to:
- Attendance of lectures and tutorials
- Participation (e.g. taking the course’s virtual field trip, the asking of questions in classes, engagement with online discussions in the Facebook group, etc.)
- Short paper (a review exercise of about 2000 words) – 30% of the term grade.
- Take-home examination (2500-3000 words) – 40% of the term grade.
The tutorials grant students the chance to discuss the topics introduced in the lectures, and in addition they bestow opportunities to help resolve any problems in understanding course content that the students may have. To prepare for these classes materials will be given out beforehand. To provoke debate during the tutorials students will be asked to undertake short presentations, and participate in question and answer sessions. The purpose of this is straightforward: to allow for student involvement, active learning, and where possible deeper learning and thinking.
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學生遞交作業時，必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交，表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。
- 如屬小組習作，則所有組員均須簽署聲明；所有組員（不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容）均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
- 如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主，並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者，學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後，便會獲得收據，收據上已列明有關聲明。
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學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途（例如：同時符合兩科的要求）而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見，並可以接受，惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下，須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。