LATINX LITERACIES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Satisfied Communications A Course Designation: Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop a theoretical understanding of literacy studies, homing in on concepts, such as “reading the word and reading the world,” “funds of knowledge,” “mestiz@ scripts,” relevant to many Latinx literacy traditions. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and analyze key social, political, and historical pressures on many Latinx literacies, including the relationship between racism and literacy, legal status and literacy, and linguistic discrimination. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and analyze central ways that Latinx communities have used and use writing for social change through close readings of ethnographic and literary accounts. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Create a portfolio of creative, scholarly, and reflective writing connected to course themes, deepening understandings of Latinx literacies, and developing writing and revision techniques that will transfer to other contexts. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop a theoretical understanding of literacy studies, homing in on concepts, such as “reading the word and reading the world,” “funds of knowledge,” “mestiz@ scripts,” relevant to many Latinx literacy traditions. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and analyze key social, political, and historical pressures on many Latinx literacies, including the relationship between racism and literacy, legal status and literacy, and linguistic discrimination. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and analyze central ways that Latinx communities have used and use writing for social change through close readings of ethnographic and literary accounts. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Create a portfolio of creative, scholarly, and reflective writing connected to course themes, deepening understandings of Latinx literacies, and developing writing and revision techniques that will transfer to other contexts. Audience: Undergraduate