COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Students are required to attend their scheduled classes punctually. In case of absences, they are responsible for studying any missed lessons and for performing any missed activities. Academic requirements, which must be presented when they were absent, must be submitted when they attend their classes. The facilitator and the students will agree upon other specific policies.

Students are required to participate actively during classroom lectures, reporting, discussions, or activities. Students, who passively participate during classroom lectures, reporting, discussions, or activities, although actively participate in other academic works, lost a valuable percentage of their quarter ratings. However, mere talking without relevant content subtracts rather than adds to their class standing.

Students are required to hurdle quizzes, chapter tests, unit tests, and quarter tests that will be given announced or unannounced and periodically. Questions will be based from lessons and materials tackled during classroom lectures, reporting, discussions, and activities. In case of any absences, students must inform the facilitator and must take any missed academic examinations when they attend their classes.

Quarter ratings are based on the following: (1) participation, 40 percent; (2) quarter examination, 25 percent; (3) projects, 25 percent; and (4) tests, 10 percent. For participation, ratings will be distributed as follows: (1) practicum, 20 percent; recitation, 10 percent; and attendance, 10 percent.

Papers will be rated as follows:


DESCRIPTION GRADE POINT EQUIVALENT

Excellent 1.0 100
Superior 1.25 97
Very Good 1.5 94
Good 1.75 91
Very Satisfactory 2.0 88
Satisfactory 2.25 85
Average 2.5 82
Below Average 2.75 79
Passed 3.0 76
Failed 5.0 74


REQUIRED FILMS


FIRST QUARTER

Abaya, Marilou Diaz. Jose Rizal. Quezon City: GMA Records and RGMA Marketing and Productions, Inc., 2005


SECOND QUARTER

Diaz, Ramona S. Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion. Quezon City: United Pictures International and Unico Ertainment, 2003.


THIRD QUARTER

“Radio.” Channel Kultura: CCP’s Video Series on Philippine Broadcasting as a Cultural Force. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines and National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2003.


FOURTH QUARTER

“Television.” Channel Kultura: CCP’s Video Series on Philippine Broadcasting as a Cultural Force. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines and National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2003.


REQUIRED OUTPUTS


FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER

Media Researches


THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTER

Class Papers


MEDIA RESEARCH


JUNE

Archival research on the 228 senators from the Fourth Legislature (1916-1919) to the Fourteenth Congress (2007-2010) through their official resumé, curriculum vitae, biographies, and autobiographies from the Internet, from the Senate Library, or from their respective offices at the Senate of the Philippines; and through books, newspapers, periodicals, vertical files, encyclopedias, and other published materials from the Internet, National Archives, National Historical Institute, Senate Library, National Library, Filipinas Heritage Library, University of the Philippines Library, and other libraries

DATE OF SUBMISSION: JULY 4, 2008, six weeks before the scheduled first quarter examinations on August 13-15, 2008


JULY

Purposive sampling on mass media practitioners who were engaged in the practice of print journalism (newspapers and periodicals) and broadcast journalism (radio and television) prior to their elections into the Senate of the Philippines from the Fourth Legislature (1916-1919) to the Fourteenth Congress (2007-2010) that must highlight the class background, the media organizations, and the political party affiliations and that will include the bachelor’s degree obtained; highest educational attainment; career, profession, or occupation prior to first election; government position or positions prior to first election; and numbers of congresses served in the Senate of the Philippines of mass media practitioners-turned-senators

DATE OF SUBMISSION: AUGUST 1, two weeks before the scheduled first quarter examinations on August 13-15, 2008


AUGUST

Content analysis of published articles, literatures, and other materials about mass media practitioners-turned-senators that will include the socio-political landscape of the country and the “characteristics” of said mass media practitioners and the relationships between the socio-political landscape of the country and the “characteristics” of said mass media practitioners that helped them cross-over from Philippine journalism to the Philippine Legislature, particularly the Senate of the Philippines, from the Fourth Legislature (1919) to the Fourteenth Congress (2007-2010)

DATE OF SUBMISSION: AUGUST 29, 2008, almost two months before the scheduled second quarter examinations on October 22-24, 2008


SEPTEMBER

Personality sketch on mass media practitioners who were engaged in the practice of print journalism (newspapers and periodicals) and broadcast journalism (radio and television) prior to their elections into the Senate of the Philippines from the Fourth Legislature (1916-1919) to the Fourteenth Congress (2007-2010)

DATE OF SUBMISSION: SEPTEMBER 26, almost one month before the scheduled second quarter examinations on October 22-24, 2008


OCTOBER

Final paper and synthesis

DATE OF SUBMISSION: OCTOBER 17, 2008, one week before the scheduled second quarter examinations on October 22-24, 2008


CLASS PAPERS


THIRD QUARTER

DATE OF SUBMISSION: JANUARY 9, 2009, one week before the scheduled third quarter examinations on January 14-16, 2009


FOURTH QUARTER

DATE OF SUBMISSION: MARCH 20, 2009, one week before the scheduled quarter examinations on March 25-27, 2009