Syllabus

	Activity	Topic	Content
1 – 2	Lecture	Introduction	Introduce topic, theological issues, practical issues, set up field trip.
3 – 15	Field Activities	Analysing Land Issues in a Community	Professor set this up with a local church, divide students into teams, give information on locations of offices, and give students letters of information to take with them, provide GPS system. Break into groups of 6-10. Define areas of responsibility, as not all can do all. With the church people, visit a typical squatter area and talk to the people, and get their permissions to analyse the situation. Determine what type of properties these are from the assessors office, is it private, BIR, Govt Agency, local government, by getting the tax map from the local government. Visit Registry of Deeds, to get the copy of the government title. If it belongs to the government go to the Bureau of lands and survey, to get the subdivision plan. Is it private, govt. if it is a fake title, students need to detect this. Find actual location, through their GPS system. Report back to the community and advise them on their situation. Most likely it is titled in the name of someone else. If it is government they can probably apply for socialised housing. If it is private they can go for CMP. (students need to be trained in details of communicating this first). 10% may have fake titles, so they need to be informed as to what to do.
16	Lecture + Power point	Part 2: Process of Developing Land Rights theology	Issues in a Situational, Contextual Theology of Land How to Develop Contextual Theologies
17-18	Power Point Lecture & discussion	The Kingdom of God and the Land	The Kingdom of God and the Land The Nature of land in the scriptures 3 progressions from landlessness to landedness in the scriptures.
19	Lecture and Discussion	The Biblical Basis for Advocacy	Biblical sources for involvement in doing justice and advocacy on behalf of the poor
20-21	Lecture and Discussion	Part 3: Contextual Issues	Regalian Doctrine, categories of land, illegal titles, illegal exploitation, non-stewardship, no national land policy, syndicates
22	Video Case Study	Review of Documentation	Atty Bringas VCD on a case that shows the various documentation of land titles. “The history of a land title” i.e., from the Original Certificate of Title (OCT) which is the first title issued to the land to the Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) which is when ownership is transferred to another or when a parcel of land which is covered by an OCT is subdivided into several lots where TCT’s are issued to these lots.
23	Case Studies	Alternatives to present	De Soto Model, Community Mortgage Program
24-25	Lecture	Upgrading squatter areas	Review of UN or NHA plans for upgrading squatter areas
26-38	Self-Study	Land Rights Theology	Reading and Writing of Paper
39-40	Presentation	Land Rights Theology	5 min Class Presentation of papers

Course Hours
Lecture	12-15 hours
Practical Work	10- 15 hours
Self-study reading and writing	10-15 hours
Total Hours	35-40 hours

Task No.	Description of the task/assignment	Marks	Weighting
EL715 – 1 (Formative assessment)	Trainees will identify in a one page summary the main documents in Filipino law related to land rights and the main issues.	100	15%
EL715 – 2 (Formative assessment)	Praxis: Trainees will walk through the steps of determining the land rights issues of a community, as evidenced by a group presentation to the church/community members. Participants and lecturer will rank each ones contribution.	100	50%
EL715 – 3 (Summative Assessment)	Trainees will articulate a contextual theology of land and land rights that engages the contextual issues and Biblical stories in a 1500 word paper.	100	45%