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C&I 309: Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum |
Course Overview & Syllabus
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This course is taught to first semester MCEA students as an introduction to the complexities surrounding what constitutes literacy and how this is intimately related to individual identity. We explore what literacy looks like across content areas drawing from sociocultural theories of literacy and applying our understandings through strategy lesson presentations and the design of a cross-curricular unit (designed around a Big Idea drawn from a selected YA/Children's book).
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Course Highlights
Literacy Autobiography
A major component of this course is the literacy autobiography assignment that allows students to explore their previous experiences and relationships to reading and writing, within and outside of school contexts. In working to develop a definition of literac(ies), this is often the first opportunity students have had to consider the broader implications related to identity and meaning-making in social spaces. In addition, the concept of 'literacy sponsors' (Brandt) is used to introduce how power and control are intimately intertwined with literacy practices and the ways in which we have come to define them in academic settings.
A major component of this course is the literacy autobiography assignment that allows students to explore their previous experiences and relationships to reading and writing, within and outside of school contexts. In working to develop a definition of literac(ies), this is often the first opportunity students have had to consider the broader implications related to identity and meaning-making in social spaces. In addition, the concept of 'literacy sponsors' (Brandt) is used to introduce how power and control are intimately intertwined with literacy practices and the ways in which we have come to define them in academic settings.