Literacy And Community: Reading And Writing Toward Social Change

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This class will challenge students to think more broadly about different kinds of literacies and the meaning of literacy in different social, political, and cultural contexts. Students will study how certain literacies become valued in our society and how literacy functions as a navigational technology that opens up some paths and closes off others. Students will question and examine taken-for-granted definitions of literacy and reflect on the role of literacy in their college lives and beyond. The class will have a hands-on component in that students will explore sites of literacy learning in the Omaha community. P: Contemporary Composition course; Critical Issues in Human Inquiry; Oral Communication; CR: Sr. stdg.