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Apr 18, 2024
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ENG 3830 - Politics and Literacy: Issues of Race, Class and Gender
Designed to explore political, social, historical, and educational perspectives of literacy. Students will read about how historians and theorists have defined the impact of literacy on cultures and individuals. They will read and discuss how literacy has been used as a tool for empowerment and for oppression. An important focus of the class entails examining how a student’s experiences with literacy are often shaped by race, social class, and gender. The collection of readings on literacy also covers broad themes, including technologies and literacy, histories of literacy in the U.S., power, privilege, and discourse, and literacy in the work place.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will demonstate a critical understanding of the range of consequences attributed to literacy by theorists and historians.
- Students will demonstrate a critical understanding of how literacy can be used as a means of political and social liberation and control.
- Students will demonstrate their understanding of how literacy experiences are shaped by background and social circumstance, by interactions of race, class, gender.
- Students will demonstrate their understanding of key concepts involving a variety of perspectives of literacy, such as historical, social and politica perspectives
- Students will use informal and formal writing to explore and create arguments about literacy. Informal writing includes focused reading responses and in class freewriting on a discussion question.
- Students will use research to explore and create arguments related to issues in literacy; for example, students might investigate the debate about Ebonics and its role in education.
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