WORKPLACE LITERACY

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Graduate status. Designing, teaching in, and assessing workplace-literacy and job-readiness programs. Methods of developing customized curricula and teaching literacy and ESL via a sociocultural literacy framework. Analysis and critique of case studies that focus on (1) federal, state, and local workforce policies; (2) educating, training, and re-skilling an underskilled workforce in a global economy; and (3) issues of diversity in the workplace.