Learning Agreement: Gender, Conflict and Peace (GE-GCP)

Institutional and Administrative Overview

  • Institution: Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Main Campus, Dapitan City, Province of Zamboanga del Norte

  • Academic Unit: College of Liberal Arts, Mathematics and Sciences, Department of General Education

  • Course Title: Gender, Conflict and Peace (GE-GCP)

  • Course Credit and Hours: 3 Units3\,\text{Units} / 54 hours54\,\text{hours} total contact time

  • Faculty Instructor: Professor Naomie S. Baguinat

  • Term: First Semester, SY 2026-2027

  • Face-to-Face Class Schedules:

    • Monday: 8:30-10:00 AM

    • Wednesday: 1:00-2:30 PM, 2:30-4:00 PM, 5:30-7:00 PM

    • Thursday: 8:30-10:00 AM, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, 4:00-5:30 PM

    • Friday: 7:00-8:30 AM

Purpose and Basis of the Learning Agreement

  • Operational Foundation: Operationalizes the approved Gender, Conflict and Peace course syllabus and the Faculty Academic Continuity Plan for First Semester SY 2026-2027.

  • Scope of Study: Examines gender in direct relation to conflict, violence, security, peace, and peacebuilding.

  • Pedagogical Methodologies: Interdisciplinary readings, case analysis, reflection, dialogue, policy analysis, and contextualized outputs.

  • Primary Educational Outcome: Fosters the development of critical, ethical, gender-responsive, and peace-oriented citizenship.

  • Structural Scope: Establishes clear learning milestones, student and faculty responsibilities, academic-integrity standards, assessment expectations, and academic continuity arrangements.

Course Learning Milestones and Calendar Schedule

  • Calendar Anchor Dates (Faculty Academic Continuity Plan):

    • Week 7: September 28-October 2, 2026

    • Week 8: October 5-9, 2026

    • Midterm Examination Period: October 12-17, 2026

  • Weeks 1-2 (August 17-28, 2026): Foundations of Gender, Conflict and Peace

    • Key Concepts Defined and Distinguished: Sex, gender, sexuality, gender identity/expression, gender roles, equality/equity, intersectionality, conflict, violence, peace, and human security.

    • Theoretical Analysis: Comparison of major theoretical lenses.

    • Key Learning Activities: Lecture-discussion, concept mapping, stereotype audit, and guided case analysis.

    • Assessment Deliverables: Concept map, diagnostic reflection/recitation, and short examination/concept application.

  • Weeks 3-4 (August 31-September 11, 2026): Gender Inequality, Power, Intersectionality, and Violence

    • Analytical Focus: Analyzing how gender intersects with class, ethnicity, age, disability, sexuality, and other social locations to produce inequality, exclusion, violence, resilience, and agency.

    • Key Learning Activities: Intersectionality matrix, small-group case analysis, and guided reflection.

    • Expected Culminating Output: Analytical Reflection Paper.

  • Weeks 5-6 (September 14-25, 2026): Gender, Conflict, Militarization, and Gender-Based Violence

    • Analytical Focus: Explaining and evaluating gendered patterns of conflict, militarization, masculinities/femininities, gender-based violence (GBV), conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), protection, and human rights using evidence and respectful academic discourse.

    • Expected Culminating Output: Issue Brief / Analytical Paper.

  • Week 7 (September 28-October 2, 2026): Academic Continuity Period - Gender-Sensitive Conflict Analysis

    • Practical Application: Applying gender-sensitive conflict analysis to Philippine and community cases across family, school, workplace, community, and public life.

    • Intervention Planning: Proposing ethical, inclusive, and context-responsive approaches to conflict prevention, dialogue, and peacebuilding.

    • Independent Student Tasks: Completing previously oriented guided readings, case/issue analysis, and developing assigned course requirements using instructions and rubrics provided in advance.

    • Expected Output: Contextualized Case Analysis / Course Requirement.

  • Week 8 (October 5-9, 2026): Pre-Midterm / Silent Week - Consolidation and Completion

    • Primary Objectives: Synthesizing pre-Midterm concepts, completing, revising, and submitting designated requirements, identifying gender assumptions and implications for conflict prevention and peace, and independent Midterm Examination preparation.

    • Content Restriction: No substantial new content is introduced during this week.

    • Expected Deliverables: Synthesis matrix, finalization checklist, self-assessment, and designated course requirement.

  • Midterm Examination Period (October 12-17, 2026): Midterm Examination

    • Assessment Goal: Demonstrating integrated understanding and application of concepts and frameworks covered in Weeks 1 through 8.

    • Faculty Status: Regular faculty responsibilities resume beginning October 12, 2026.

  • Weeks 9-10 (October 19-30, 2026): Women, Peace and Security

    • Core Topics: Explaining the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) and subsequent WPS developments, the Philippine National Action Plan on WPS (NAP-WPS), and the pillars of participation, protection, prevention, relief, and recovery across Philippine and global contexts.

    • Expected Culminating Output: Policy Analysis Paper.

  • Weeks 11-12 (November 2-13, 2026): Gendered Agency and Peacebuilding

    • Analytical Focus: Assessing women, men, and gender-diverse persons as victims/survivors, actors, leaders, mediators, and peacebuilders without essentializing gender.

    • Core Themes: Masculinities and nonviolence, inclusive participation, and community peace processes.

    • Expected Culminating Output: Case Presentation / Position Paper.

  • Weeks 13-14 (November 16-27, 2026): Conflict Prevention, Transitional Justice, and Post-Conflict Recovery

    • Analytical Focus: Evaluating how displacement, recovery, justice, reconciliation, reconstruction, and post-conflict processes affect various groups differently, and formulating gender-responsive responses.

    • Expected Culminating Output: Gender-Responsive Intervention Proposal.

  • Weeks 15-16 (November 30-December 11, 2026): Gender-Responsive Peace Advocacy and Course Synthesis

    • Core Objective: Integrating gender analysis and peacebuilding principles into an evidence-based, ethical, and feasible advocacy/Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) or peace initiative addressing a gender-related conflict or peace concern.

    • Key Learning Activities: Project workshop, dialogue simulation, peer review, consultation, and presentation rehearsal.

    • Expected Culminating Output: Gender-Responsive Peace Advocacy/IEC Project and Presentation.

  • Final Examination Period

    • Schedule Standard: Governed strictly by the official University Final Examination Schedule.

    • Integrative Goal: Final Integrative Assessment demonstrating cumulative understanding of gender, conflict, and peace by integrating theoretical, analytical, ethical, communicative, and civic competencies.

Academic Continuity Arrangements

  • Faculty Leave Timeline: September 27-October 11, 2026.

  • Affected Regular Instructional Week: September 28-October 2, 2026 (Week 7).

  • Pre-Midterm / Silent Week Scheduling: October 5-9, 2026 class slots fall within Pre-Midterm/Silent Week and are reserved for completing/submitting requirements, consolidating prior lessons, and independent Midterm preparation.

  • Structured Student Continuity Tasks: Guided readings, analysis of gender and conflict issues, reflection/analytical papers, case-based activities, and completion of previously assigned requirements using clear instructions and assessment rubrics provided in advance.

  • Policy on Contact Hours Recovery: Independent study and outputs completed during continuity do not automatically replace face-to-face contact hours where University policy requires recovery. Any required recovery must be undertaken through an approved make-up class or academic arrangement coordinated with appropriate academic authorities.

Student Responsibilities and Conduct Guidelines

  • Mandatory Attendance: Attendance at scheduled classes, examinations, presentations, consultations, and approved recovery activities in compliance with syllabus attendance provisions.

  • Active Course Participation: Active and respectful participation in lecture-discussions, concept mapping, case analysis, debates, policy/document analysis, group reporting, scenario analysis, dialogue simulation, peer review, and other learning activities.

  • Timely Output Deliveries: Completion of assigned readings and course requirements according to announced instructions, rubrics, and deadlines.

  • Professional & Inclusive Language: Use of gender-sensitive, inclusive, evidence-based, and respectful language in oral discussions and written work, particularly when engaging with conflict, violence, gender-based violence, identity, and human-rights issues.

  • Privacy and Dignity Protocols: Protection of the dignity and privacy of individuals discussed in cases, reflections, interviews, community examples, or class materials, avoiding unnecessary disclosure of sensitive personal information.

  • Critical Evidence-Based Thinking: Critical engagement with Philippine and global perspectives, maintaining a strict distinction between evidence-based analysis and stereotypes, prejudice, unsupported generalizations, or personal attacks.

Academic Integrity and AI Policy

  • Standard of Intellectual Ownership: All submitted work must be the student's own intellectual creation unless explicit authorization for collaboration is provided.

  • Citation Requirement: Complete and proper citation of all outside sources, including internet references.

  • AI Prohibition: AI-generated work is strictly prohibited as a substitute for the student's own academic work.

  • Human-Machine Collaboration Framework:

    • Applies strictly when human-machine collaboration is explicitly permitted by the professor.

    • The student remains fully responsible for the intellectual work, verification, accuracy, source acknowledgment, and defensibility of the submitted output.

    • AI shall never be used to fabricate references, quotations, cases, laws, policies, statistics, events, or evidence.

Group Work and Dialogue Responsibilities

  • Individual Group Commitments: Meaningful contribution to group analysis, reporting, stakeholder mapping, policy mapping, project development, and presentations.

  • Collaborative Accountability: Acceptance of responsibility for assigned portions of collaborative work and maintenance of evidence of individual contributions when required.

  • Respectful Dialogue Ethics: Listening respectfully to differing perspectives and critiquing ideas, policies, cases, and arguments rather than engaging in personal attacks.

  • Protection of Personal Boundaries: Refraining from pressuring classmates to disclose personal experiences involving gender, sexuality, violence, trauma, family conflict, or other sensitive topics.

  • Evidence-Based Positions: Grounding positions and recommendations in course concepts and credible evidence.

Submission and Communication Protocols

  • Output Submission: On-time submission of course requirements in the prescribed format or platform.

  • Official Communication Channels: Continuous monitoring of official class communication channels for instructions, materials, rubrics, examination coverage, and schedule advisories.

  • Absence Notification & Excuse Letters: Timely communication of legitimate difficulties affecting attendance or submissions, adhering to the syllabus requirement of submitting a formal excuse letter when absent.

  • Output Archiving: Retaining copies of all submitted outputs and supporting reference materials.

  • Silent Week Priorities: Prioritizing completion, revision, submission, synthesis, and examination preparation during Pre-Midterm/Silent Week.

Assessment System and Grading Criteria

  • Percentage Weight Distribution:

    • Major Examinations (Midterm or Final): 30%30\%

    • Quizzes: 30%30\%

    • Performance Tasks: 40%40\% (encompasses projects, assignments, activities, recitations, works, seat works, and outputs)

  • General Average Calculation Formula:   General Average=0.50×Midterm Grade+0.50×Final Grade\text{General Average} = 0.50 \times \text{Midterm Grade} + 0.50 \times \text{Final Grade}

  • Complete List of Syllabus-Based Deliverables:

    • Concept application

    • Analytical reflection paper

    • Issue brief / analytical paper

    • Contextualized case analysis / course requirement

    • Designated pre-Midterm requirement

    • Policy analysis paper

    • Case presentation / position paper

    • Gender-responsive intervention proposal

    • Gender-responsive peace advocacy / IEC project and presentation

Attendance, Decorum, and Classroom Rules

  • Absence Penalty Threshold: Students absent for more than 20%20\% of total class hours may be subject to official attendance consequences specified in the syllabus and applicable University policy.

  • Documentation of Absence: Mandatory submission of a required letter of excuse for any absence.

  • Participation Expectation: Active engagement and participation are expected throughout the course.

  • Timeliness Standard: Course requirements must be submitted strictly on time.

  • Dress Code and ID Standards: Prescribed uniform, student ID, and proper decorum are strictly required, subject to applicable University rules.

  • Classroom Culture: Classroom dialogue must uphold dignity, inclusion, non-discrimination, academic freedom, and responsible engagement with sensitive issues.

Commitments of the Professor

  • Instructional Clarity: Clearly communicating course outcomes, learning milestones, requirements, rubrics, assessment criteria, and deadlines.

  • Material Provision: Providing appropriate readings, cases, learning materials, and guidance for evidence-based and gender-responsive analysis.

  • Continuity Preparation: Providing advance instructions, learning materials, course requirements, submission guidance, rubrics, and Midterm coverage required under the Academic Continuity Plan.

  • Safe Facilitation: Facilitating respectful, inclusive, and academically grounded discussion of sensitive and contested issues.

  • Objective Evaluation: Evaluating student work in accordance with the approved syllabus and established criteria.

  • Post-Leave Resumption: Resuming regular faculty responsibilities beginning October 12, 2026 for the October 12-17 Midterm Examination period, and executing any approved recovery arrangement required by the University.

Acknowledgment, Undertaking, and Course Commitment

  • Acknowledgment Scope: Formal verification by the student of having read and understood the Learning Agreement, its direct alignment with the approved Gender, Conflict and Peace syllabus, and the Faculty Academic Continuity Plan.

  • Student Undertaking: Formal commitment to participate actively and respectfully, complete course requirements according to prescribed timelines, use evidence responsibly, uphold academic integrity, and contribute to a critical, ethical, gender-responsive, inclusive, and peace-oriented learning environment.

  • Verbatim Course Commitment Statement: "We examine gender, conflict, and peace critically and responsibly; ground our claims in evidence; respect human dignity and diverse perspectives; and translate learning into ethical, inclusive, and peace-oriented action."

  • Document Signatories:

    • Student: Name, Signature, Date

    • Professor: NAOMIE S. BAGUINAT, Signature, Date