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LESLIE E. BAUZON is Professor of History in the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. He obtained his Ph.D. in history at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. in 1971. He is the author of Deficit Government: Mexico and the Philippine Situado, 1606-1804 (Tokyo: The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1981); Agrarian Reform, Rural Development and the Philippine Nation-State in Mutsuo Yamada (ed.), Rural Development in Developing Countries (Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, 1999; in Nihonggo), pp. 73-102; People of the Upstream: A Reconstruction of Manobo Social Reality (Quezon City: UP CSSP Publications, 1999) and is the co-author of A Concise History of the Philippines (USA: Grolier International, 1982.

Bauzon has served as Chair of the U.P. Department of History (1974-1977); Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (1983-1989); President of the International Association of Historians of Asia (1980-1983); President of the Philippine National Historical Society (1983-1994); and Chairman of the Philippine Social Science Council (1991-1993). He was Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University, Japan, in 1979-1980; Visiting Professor at the School of Area Studies of the University of Tsukuba also in Japan in 1994-1997; Visiting Professor in the Department of History Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in February, 1998; Visiting Professor in the Japan Center for Area Studies National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan in January-February 2000; and Visiting Foreign Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy University of Tsukuba, Japan in August-December 2000. He has participated in conferences and meetings held in the U.S., Japan, Mexico, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, Libya and Holland, as well as travelled to France, Spain and Italy. In 1983, he received the "Most Outstanding Faculty Member" Award from the U.P. Alpha Chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, The International Social Science Honor Society.

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Leslie E. Bauzon, son of a United Methodist Chruch minister and a public school teacher, is married to Aurora D. Feliciano, Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and Chair, Department of Medical Education. They have three children, namely Cynthia Grace, a graduate of the UP College of Fine Arts (Class 1992)and who studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, who now works as a freelance Creative Director and Graphic Designer; Leslie Christopher (died of leukemia at age 6, 1981); and Calvin James, a 4th year student in the UP College of Architecture.


Kasaysayan 1: Course Outline

JANUS
Roman god of beginnings and endings. He is usually represented with two heads, one facing backward, the other facing forward. Janus symbolizes the principle of looking back to the past to understand the present in order to shape the future.

This course uses the Janus perspective for purposes of understanding the social dilemmas besetting the Filipino nation by clarifying the originating causes of poverty, inequity, peasant landlessness, social and civil conflict, indigenous deculturalization and ethnic strife.

Kasaysayan 1 will elaborate on the historical dimension of these problems to enhance our understanding and knowledge of our country, inculcating history as the bedrock of Filipino identity. This course will provide the principles and historical basis for the solution of the social dilemmas mentioned above, and thus enable us to formulate alternative policies more attuned toward improving the social condition of the Filipino people.

Reading:
- Leslie E. Bauzon, "A Conceptual Framework for the Study and Teaching of Philippine History and for Nation-Building."

I. Reconstruction of Philippine Prehistoric Culture

Readings:
- Dr. Eric S. Casino, THE PHILIPPINES: LANDS AND PEOPLES, A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (USA: Grolier International, 1982), pp. 38-77
- Leslie E. Bauzon and Eusebio Z. Dizon, Archaeological Discovery in Surigao, KINAADMAN XIX, 1 (1997), 11-25.

II. The Philippines Under Spain: Religious, Cultural, Political and Economic Hispanization

Readings:
- Leslie E. Bauzon, DEFICIT GOVERNMENT: MEXICO AND THE PHILIPPINE SITUADO, 1606-1804 (Tokyo: The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1981)
- Leslie E. Bauzon, Influence of the Spanish Culture translated to Nihonggo as Firipin bunka eno Supein no eikyo, in Shizuo Suzuki and Shinzo Hayase (eds.), TONAN AJIA NO JITEN FIRIPIN (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: PHILIPPINES), Kyoto: Dohosha, 1991
- Leslie E. Bauzon, "Hacienda Formation and Land Acquisition and Distribution in 19th Century Philippines," AREA STUDIES TSUKUBA 13: 45-80, 1995.

III. Resistance and Revolution

Readings:
- Leslie E. Bauzon, "Social Unrest in the Land of Sugar Haciendas, 1857-1907," AREA STUDIES TSUKUBA 14: 1-61, 1997
- Leslie E. Bauzon, PHILIPPINE AGRARIAN REFORM, 1880-1965: THE REVOLUTION THAT NEVER WAS (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1975)
- Leslie E. Bauzon, "A Century of Agrarian Reform, Rural Development and the Philippine Nation-State," translated to Nihonggo in Mutsuo Yamada (ed), RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, 1999), 73-102.

IV. The Philippines Under America and Japan: Political, Economic and Cultural

Readings:
-Chapters 4 to 7 in Helen R. Tubangui, Leslie E. Bauzon, Marcelino A. Foronda, Jr., Luz U. Ausejo, A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES (USA: Grolier International, 1982), 107-191.

V. The Non-Christian Filipinos

Readings:
- Kenneth E. Bauzon, LIBERALISM AND THE QUEST FOR ISLAMIC IDENTITY IN THE PHILIPPINES (Durham, NC: Acorn Press, 1991 and Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1991
- Leslie E. Bauzon, "An Ethnohistory of Surigao and Agusan, Southern Philippines," AREA STUDIES TSUKUBA 14: 1-25, 1996
- Leslie E. Bauzon, PEOPLE OF THE UPSTREAM: A RECONSTRUCTION OF MANOBO SOCIAL REALITY (Quezon City: UP CSSP Publications, 1999)

VI. Contemporary Philippines

Readings:
- Kenneth E. Bauzon, "Restoring Purpose in Politics," DILIMAN REVIEW (July 2000).
- Kenneth E. Bauzon, "The Philippines: The 1996 Peace Agreement for the Southern Philippines: An Assessment," ETHNIC STUDIES REPORT (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka) XVII, 2 (July 1999), 253-300.

Textbook:
- Tubangui, Bauzon, Foronda and Ausejo, A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES. Volume 1 of THE FILIPINO NATION (USA: Grolier International, 1982), 3 volumes.