Using Advanced Literacy to Teach and Learn Across Disciplines

Catalog description

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Examination of pedagogies that use literacy to help students learn across disciplines and content areas; exploration of aspects of literacy practices including reading, writing, discussion, interpretive and critical activities for the comprehension and evaluation of new content; strategies for teaching new literacies skills associated with ICT, media and visual reading; examination of theoretically grounded and empirically supported instructional methods. Prerequisites: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.