Texts, Tools, and Culture

Catalog description

This course focuses on how educators can implement diverse texts as tools to promote students’ literacy and identity development as culturally and globally oriented learners in a new era. Grounded in multimodality, semiotics, and new literacy theories, it discusses multiple texts including popular media, multicultural literature, and technology. The course embraces the broader concept of text that goes beyond the canonical and printed text. Fieldwork is required. Offered: summer.