Republic of the Philippines

Surigao del Sur State University

Rosario, Tandag City, Surigao del Sur 8300
Telefax No. 086-214-4221
 Website: www.sdssu.edu.ph

Department of Social Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences

THE
CONTEMPORARY
WORLD

PREPARED BY:
JENNIFER A. BEA, MAED
Instructor III

COURSE INFORMATION

Course Code GEC-CW

Course Title Contemporary World

No of Units 3 units

Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None

Contact Hours 54 hours

Mode of Delivery Blended

Tools/Platforms Google Meet: to be given by the instructor

Group Chat/ Room via Messenger : Jennifer-Ampler Bea

Course Description This course introduces students to the contemporary world by

examining the multifaceted phenomenon of globalization. Using the various
disciplines of the social sciences, it examines the economic, social, political,
technological, and other transformations that have created an increasing
awareness of the interconnectedness of peoples and places around the
globe. To this end, the course provides an overview of the various debates in
global governance, development, and sustainability. Beyond exposing the
student to the world outside the Philippines, it seeks to inculcate a sense of
global citizenship and global ethical responsibility.
This course includes mandatory topics on population education in the context
of population and demography.

Course Outcomes At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
A. Competencies
● Distinguish different interpretations of and approaches to
globalization
● Describe the emergence of global economic, political, social, and
cultural systems
● Analyze the various contemporary drivers of globalization
● Understand the issues confronting the nation-state
● Assess the effects of globalization on different social units and their
responses
B. Skills
● Analyze contemporary news events in the context of globalization
● Analyze global issues in relation to Filipinos and the Philippines
● Write a research paper with proper citations on a topic related to
globalization
C. Values
● Articulate personal positions on various global issues
● Identify the ethical implications of global citizenship
.

COURSE TOPICS

Week Topic

Module 1

Lesson 1 VMGO of the University, Classroom policies, Scope of the course

Lesson 2 Introduction to Globalization

Lesson 3 The Global Economy

Lesson 4 Market Integration

Lesson 5 The Global Interstate System

PRELIM EXAM

Lesson 6 The United Nations and Contemporary Governance

 Lesson 7 The Global Divides

Lesson `8 Global Media Cultures

Lesson 9 Globalization of Religion

10 MIDTERM EXAM

Lesson 11 The Global Cities

Lesson 12 Global Demography

Lesson 13 Global Migration

14 PRE-FINAL EXAM

Lesson 15 Sustainable Development

Lesson 16 The Global Food Security

Lesson 17 Global Citizenship

18 FINAL EXAM

GRADING SYSTEM

Non-Laboratory Subject
Class Standing…………………………………… 40%
● Attendance………………………………... 5%
● Quizzes…….... …………………………. 20%
● Oral Graded Recitation…………...……10%
● Assignment……………………………… 5%
Examinations……………………………………. 40%
Requirements…………………………………… 20%
TOTAL 100%

REFERENCES Printed:
1. Aguilar, Filomeno V. 2012. “Differentiating Sedimented from Modular
Transnationalism: The View from East Asia.” Asian and Pacific Migration
Journal 21(2): 149–171
2. Lesthaeghe, Ron. 2010. “The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic
Transition.” Population and Development Review 36(2): 211–251. .
3. Rodulfo M. (2018). The Contemporary World. Mind shapers Co. Inc.
pp.1-33.
E-books:
1. Steger, Manfred B., Paul Battersby, and Joseph M. Siracusa, eds. 2014.The
SAGE Handbook of Globalization. Two volumes. Thousand Oaks: SAGE
Publications.
Online References:
1. ../Downloads/Video/Globalization%20explained%20
(explainity®%20explainer%20video)%20-%20YouTube.mp4
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipMiv2vQGqk
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyX_FRIPVmk
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W26oG9wMYb0
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5sP4GOO-fo
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1xBpBaBbr
7. https://www.geopolitica.info/the-role-of-religions-in-conflicts/
 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO2onZwxBkM
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-P3-1TjZuc
10. https://www.slideshare.net/efendievaz/globalization-and-religion
11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-4oMnmu47Q
12. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/alamo-sociology/chapter/reading-
demographic-theories/
13. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12185 This article is reprinted
from International Social Science Journal , 2000; 52: 269–281
14. https://books.google.com.ph/books?hl=en&lr=&id=uRyJCwAAQBAJ&o
i=fnd&pg=PA433&dq=%E2%80%9CMobility,+Diversity++and+Commun
ity+in+the+Global+City%E2%80%9D+by+Val+Colic+-Peisker+&ots=Yzm
wWG0D-y&sig=tjuyNJrzcgTZwIRgWPN2FHp2dZQ&redir_esc=y#v=one
page&q&f=false
Films:
● “The Corporation” directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
● “The Price of Sugar” directed by Bill Haney
● “The Rise of ISIS,” PBS Frontline
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rise-of-isis/)
Project:
● Compilation of lecture/activities
● Research proposal

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

Name Jennifer A. Bea, MAED

E-mail Address jabea@sdssu.edu.ph

Contact Number 0951-947-3348

Consultation Hours Wednesday to Friday, 8:00 – 5:00 pm

Lesson 1: Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives, Core Values

I. Introduction. This is the institution’s direction on what the University hoped to achieve by the students
after graduation. It will also help to develop the public commitments with the involvement of the
academic community to increase general understanding of what it hopes to accomplish, why it matters,
and what may need to change to realize a stronger academic program.

II. Intended Learning Outcomes

After the lesson, students are expected to:
▪ Express ideas based on learner’s understanding of the University’s VMGO (Vision, Mission,
Goals, and Objectives), Core Values and Quality Policy.
▪ Share learner’s personal plan to accomplish in life.
▪ List down and report expectations for the course.
III. Procedure
A. Activity. On this side of the University.
Link your own knowledge and understanding by filling up the spaces below the graphic organizer on
SDSSU Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives and Core Values. (Use separate sheet of paper for your
answer)

1. Vision
Leads us to interconnect through global and local issues with broader points of view that
focused attaining food security where all people, at all times, have physical, social and
 economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life. Supports poverty alleviation; is a mode of
production organization that helps the poor obtain employment in local and nearby areas.
Developing renewable energy, and conserving natural environment.

2. Mission
SDSSU Students acquire and demonstrate their knowledge and skills by engaging in learning
exercises, activities and experiences that align with clearly defined programmatic outcomes.

3. Goals
● INSTRUCTIONS
Provide high-quality academic programs in order to develop professionally
competent, technically skilled, globally competitive and morally upright graduates
who are committed to professional and service excellence.
● RESEARCH
Without research, all of our technological advancements and other developments
would have remained fantasies.
● EXTENSIONS
Solving issues with access and empowerment are necessary to achieve the Goal 1
targets on eradicating extreme poverty, reducing those living in poverty by at least
half, ensuring equal rights to access resources, and reducing inequality overall.

4. Objectives
It enables various stakeholder groups to express their full support and untiring
determination making Surigao del Sur State University (SDSSU) the forefront of quality
education as a “glocal” university. This empirical study investigated in determining the
awareness, dissemination and acceptability and congruency between the educational
practices and the Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives of SDSSU .

5. Quality Policy
This is because motivation is created by the brain from a great number of considerations.
Increasing financial rewards may motivate a few employees to produce more, but rarely can
these rewards be significant enough to cause more than a very few to become “highly
motivated and committed.”

B. Analysis. My Direction in Life

Answer the questions below briefly:

1. What do you want to do or experience in your life?

experience life as a healthy person, create my own family, do a startup, climb a
mountain, do some teaching or having my own house .
2. What do you want to accomplish in your life?
I do have goals and desires that I want to achieve in my life that allows me to live my life
to its fullest and be content. By fulfilling my aims I’ll live and die without regrets because
everything I will have wanted to do has been completed. In life I hope to achieve: A good
education resulting in qualifications.

C. Abstraction. Read and Understand the SDSSU Operation

THE SURIGAO DEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY

General Mandate of the University

The University shall primarily provide advanced education, higher

technological, professional instruction and training in trade, fishery,
agriculture, science, education, commerce, engineering, forestry,
nautical courses, and other related fields. It shall also undertake
research and extension services and provide progressive leadership in its
areas of specialization (RA 9998, Section 2 or you can read the whole
Republic Act 9998 through this url: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2010/ra_9998_2010.html)

History

Surigao del Sur State University (SDSSU), formerly Surigao del Sur Polytechnic State College
(SSPSC), is composed of six campuses strategically located in the Province of Surigao del Sur. It achieved
its status as a university through Republic Act 9998 signed on February 22, 2010. The leadership of its
dynamic President, Dr. Remegita C. Olvida, and the dedication and commitment of its faculty and staff
and other stakeholders for quality tertiary education and excellence all played a key role on the
conferment of the status of a state university to the institution after 28 years of existence. The history of
the University dates back to 1982 when Bukidnon State College opened their extension in Tandag known
as the Bukidnon External Studies Center. In 1992, it became the Surigaodel Sur Polytechnic College. The
creation of the College integrated four DECS-supervised schools in the municipalities of Cagwait,
Tagbina, Lianga, and Tago. Six years later in 1998, the College earned the status of being a state college
by virtue of Republic Act 8628. In 2000, the Surigao del Sur Institute of Technology (SSIT) in Cantilan
became the fifth satellite campus of the University (www.sdssu.edu.ph).

Historical Background of SDSSU-Main Campus

▪ 1993 – Surigao del Sur Polytechnic College (SSPC) by RA 7377 through the efforts of
Honorable Congressman Mario Serra Ty, M.D.
▪ 1998 – Surigao del Sur Polytechnic State College
(SSPSC) by RA 8628 through Honorable Congressman Mario
Serra Ty, M.D.
▪ 2010 – Surigao del Sur State University (SDSSU)
by virtue of RA 9998, authored by Honorable Congressman
Phillip A. Pichay and approved by Her Excellency President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Philosophy

SDSSU believes that higher education is an instrument for the improvement of life through
democratized access to quality education in the development of a well-rounded person.

Vision

A leading “glocal” University with widened academic perspectives that focus on attaining food
security, supporting poverty alleviation, developing renewable energy, and conserving natural
environment.

Mission

SDSSU shall provide competency-based higher education training driven by relevant and
responsive instruction, research, extension and sustainable resource management.

Particularly, SDSSU is committed to:

1. Produce competent and skilled graduates prepared for gainful employment;

 2. Develop graduates who shall not only foster economic progress but also care for the
environment, adhere to positive value system, and preserve cultural heritage;
3. Engage in high-impact research for instruction and develop technology for food security
and renewable energy;
4. Collaborate with government and non-government agencies to help improve the lives of the
marginalized groups; and
5. Promote cooperation/partnership among regional, national, and ASEAN institutions in
Higher Education.

Core Values

Competence
A combination of observable and measurable knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal
attributes that contribute to enhance SDSSU employee and student performance and ultimately
result in organizational success.
Accountability
Responsibility for own actions, decisions, and commitment to accomplish work in an
ethical, efficient, cost-effective and transparent manner manifesting the value of sound stewardship
in the wise use of resources for common good.
Responsiveness
A prompt action, consistent communication, quality information, and a focus on providing
a superior experience to stakeholders.
Excellence
The quality spectrum at exceptional levels demonstrated by learning outcomes and the
development of shared culture of quality consistent with the vision, mission and goals of
University.
Service
Dedication for a continuous improvement of services, stakeholder’s relationships and
partnership which stresses interdependence and collaboration for a sustainable success of clients
and their communities in helping build a just, peaceful, stable and progressive Filipino nation.

SDSSU CARES…

These core values are not descriptions of the work we do, nor the strategies we employ to
accomplish our University vision. They are the core values that underlie our works and interactions
as we internalize responsibilities to fulfil our mission. They are the basic elements of how we go
about our work and how we deal with stakeholders, molds students to become competent,
innovative, globally competitive and service-oriented.

Goals

These are the specific goals in the four (4)-fold functions of the University:
KRA 1. Instruction
Develop highly competent, globally competitive, and morally upright graduates.
KRA 2. Research
Produce research for the advancement of knowledge, new technology and innovative
approaches for competitive endeavors.
KRA 3. Extension
Empower the rural poor to improve their lives through transfer of technologies and
knowledge.
KRA 4. Production
Sustain University operations through viable and profitable income generating projects.

Quality Policy
 The Surigao del Sur State University commits itself to produce highly motivated, globally
competitive, and morally upright human resource through the delivery of transformative and quality
higher education that conforms to international standards driven by excellent instruction, relevant
researches, sustainable extension and production services.
Together with our stakeholders, we shall endeavor for continual improvement of our quality
management system in consonance with statutory and regulatory requirements for clients and industry
satisfaction for quality of life.
SDSSU Hymn

Hail! Oh, our greatest pride, SDSSU

Hail! Oh, our greatest pride
Surigao del Sur State University
The golden seeds of your education
Now spread to serve mankind
With labor, love, and true dedication
Your name and splendor sublime
For thy honor and thy noble mission
Our hearts and mind sound resound
The virtues you adhere you carry on SDSSU our home
Hail! Oh, our greatest pride, SDSSU
Your light guide SDSSU our loyalty resides
Here our loyalty resides!
LYRICIST: Prof Evelyn T. Bagood
Composer: Rex L. Ingotan
Music Arranger: Demeiboy T. Rosales
You can also watch and sing along the SDSSU Hymn through this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktLJiuD0K_I&t=6s.

D. Application. Knowing It.

Answer the following questions briefly. Provide another sheet for your answer

1. Is it your responsibility as an SDSSU student to carry out the Vision, Mission and Goals of the
University? Why?
Yes, Mission statement the division of student life is committed to enriching the academic,
personal and professional growth of all SDSSU students. Vision will lead our profession by
providing innovative programs and services for the technological research university of the
21st century.

2. Can you say that you have practiced the core values of the University? Cite specific examples.
3. Is the VMGO clear and definite to its purpose? How?
"Without a vision, the people perish".Sometimes people think defining a school's VMGO is
unimportant but it is the opposite. The Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives of an
institution define what it will be in the future. Thus, these will also define and determine its
outcomes.
4. What do I want people to say about me in 10 years. . ., 20 years?
Well,I don’t really care about what people think of me as long as I am happy with my own
life achieving all my goals and creating my own family.
Assignment. To- bring List.

List down your expectations in the Subject/ Course, Instructor and Classmates. List them

down inside the box. (Use separate sheet for your answer.)
CLASSMATES EXPECTATION

Rubric of the Application:

Descriptive Adjective

Criteria 3 (1-1.5) 2 (1.6-2.1) 1(2.3-3)

Relevance Most/ all ideas are related Some ideas are related to Few ideas are related
to the topic the topic. to the topic

Coherence Ideas are well organized Some of the ideas are Ideas are illogically
organized arranged.

Mechanics Committed 1-8 errors Committed 9-16 errors Committed more than
16 errors.

Summary:
The institution’s VMGO provides purpose, meaning, and significance to the work of the University
and enables to motivate and empower the concerned individual to contribute to the realization and
attainment of the undertaking. Specifically, the four steps facilitate a collaborative development of a
shared VMGO, Core Values and Program details. The following are:

1. Know your organization - Clarify the nature and purpose

2. Involve critical individuals - Include those affected

3. Explore the possibilities - Consider possible futures

4. Put it into writing - Vision is committed to paper by writing their understanding on it.

References

Online
▪ www.sdssu.edu.ph
▪ https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2010/ra_9998_2010.html

▪ RA 9998

▪ CMO No. 25, series of 2015

▪ Classroom.google.com/h

▪ Syllabus (posted by the Instructor/ Professor)