After teaching this course since 2007 in various colleges and more recently in 2013 at City College SF, the instructional administrator requested that courses taught after six years are mandated to be revised otherwise, they will be delisted from the catalog. I believe this to be a requirement by some arcane school district statute. Nevertheless the exercise is worth it. Many things have happened since the turn of the millennium in the Philippines. Old and new tropes are repeated or reimagined  needs to be reflected upon and introduced into the discourse of student learning. I pay particular attention to the later part of this century and propose the following topics:

1. The Philippines in Asia: An Outlier country
2. Emergence of a real and “imagined” nation: Naming the Philippines
3. Crucible of leadership: revolts, revolution, republicanism
4. “Fifty years of Hollywood”: Visualizing Philippines and Filipinos
5. American education in the tropics: Mis-education of the Filipinos
6. Extracting natural resources and labor: U.S. economic policies in the Philippines
7. Development of the film industry: mining and remaking Filipino imaginations and  fantasy
8. The limits of an archipelago: Filipinos abroad
9. Manila men, manongs and nurses: formal and informal immigration
10. Neocolonialism, Globalization, Gender and Diaspora: Tropes in Philippine History and Society
11. The Marcos regime, dictatorship, and Martial Law: Dissecting ideas of  authoritarianism and social justice in Filipino society
12. Tropes in neocolonial culture: mimicry, innovation, beauty, and science
13. Immigration as a way of life: The promise of maalwang buhay(better life)
14. Philippines in the new geographical realities: China, Internet, Facebook, and the impact of Duterte leadership style