Subject Code : GE 101
Subject Title : UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
Subject Description : The course deals with the nature of identity, as well as the factors and
forces that affect the development and maintenance of personal
identity. The directive to know oneself has inspired countless and
varied ways to comply. Among the questions that everyone has had to
grapple with one time or other is “Who Am I?” At no other period is
this question ask more urgently than in adolescence – traditionally
believed to be a time of vulnerability and great possibilities issues of
self and identity are among the most crucial for the young.
MODE OF TOTAL
DATE TOPIC DELIVERY NO. OF REFERENCE
Lect- Labor HOURS
ure -atory
Week
1 I. Introduction: Vision and
Mission of the School; Rules 3 3
and Regulations, Class
Activity: Getting to know me
and you
Week II. The Self: Its Nature and
2 Significance 3 3
a. Case Analysis
b. The Nature of the Self
a. The Process of
Week Discovering the ‘Self’
3 b. The Johari Window:
Getting to Know ‘The
3 3
Self’
c. Determining the Four
Quadrants
III. The Self : Different
Week Philosophers and its 9 9
4 –6 Philosophical Perspective
IV. Concepts of Self: Eastern
Philosophy 12 12
Week 7 – 10 V. The Self in the Allied Sciences
a. In Sociology
b. In Anthropology
c. In Psychology
GE 101 – UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
VI. Physical Self: Image Matter
a. What is physical
Development
b. The Dynamic of Physical
Health
c. Bio psychosocial Model
of Health
d. Promoting Physical Image
e. Personal Hygiene
f. Good Grooming
g. Social Graces
h. Proper Bearing and
Posture
i. Health
VII. The Sexual Self
Week VIII. The Material Self 24 24
11- 18 IX. Moral Spiritual Development
X. The Digital Self
Final Examination
Prepared by:
MIRIAM G. ENTINES
IETI - Marikina