By Maria Jye Enriquez | March 25, 2019
Asst. Prof. Milrose P. Llenas, MA began her teaching career in the year 1992 after graduating from the Philippine Normal University and finishing her Master’s Degree in Social Sciences Teaching. She is currently taking up her Doctoral Degree in the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School specializing in Development Studies in the Socio-political Strand. Her teaching career started in San Beda University and then she transferred in the University of Santo Tomas in 2003, teaching Social Sciences courses in the College of Education before transferring to the College of Pharmacy wherein she started teaching Sociology. The course was not what she specialized in but after the long years of teaching, she eventually understood the beauty and complexity of Sociology with the help of her passion for teaching.
Throughout the years, she felt that Sociology affected her personally by making her more interested with groups of people and how they affect each other. Ma’am Lleñas admitted that teaching Sociology has made her more analytical in a way that she constantly analyzes human behavior, patterns of interaction, that then leads her to infuse sociological thoughts to help her better understand it. Now, she teaches Sociology of Family changing and somewhat evolved her perspective on the “family” that it is not only about a group of two or more people’s intimate relationship with each other but is about how interaction explained through different sociological theories could affect even the littlest thing and that now, when family is mentioned, she sees it in the lens of sociology as well. Also, Sociology plays a big part on how she desires to improve on research, with the help of her colleagues from the Department as she hopes to further strengthen and hone her skills as a researcher.
Being the good-natured, witty and sunny person that she is, her advice for her students is that one must not give up on his or his dreams, saying “dream big, then eventually achieve big”, believing that her students will eventually contribute something magnificent and life changing into the field of research in the future for the ever changing society. She also said that she is still hoping that students will take on a career that teaches Sociology as the department needs people that could possibly teach the course to become agents of positive and transformative change. She truly lives up to the optimistic vibe that she continuously give out to the people that she encounters, making Sociology an interesting course to study for her students.
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