Education (EDUC) - New Literacies: Making Multiple Meanings

EDUC 5296  New Literacies: Making Multiple Meanings

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course will examine new approaches to literacy that are both critical and culturally inclusive, and that draw on digital technology and multi-media to make meaning across the K-12 curriculum. Literacies are viewed in the plural as socially constructed and influenced by social, economic, cultural, and power relationships. The course offers a concentration of theory and practice in digital literacies, print literacies, and multi-media literacies in all areas of the curriculum.