Literacies, Languages, and Schooling

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Considers new approaches to thinking about literacy for twenty-first century educators. Students explore literacy learning and human interaction, challenging the monomodality of conventional school-based forms of learning to read and write as literacy. Students will encounter a range of learning theories related to literacy and language across the curriculum, embedded in the socio-cultural turn in literacy education. Prerequisite: 60% or higher in EDUC 2050H (or 2950H), or a pass in EDUC-INDG 1030H. Not open to students with credit for EDUC 3010H.