| Course ID: | LLED 7930E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Culture and Literacy Classrooms |
Course
Description: | Explores the ways culture transacts with teaching and learning
in literacy classrooms. |
| Oasis Title: | CULT & LIT CLASSRMS |
| Nontraditional Format: | Delivery mode is asynchronous. Course design requires
collaboration with other students. E-mail daily, discussion
boards weekly, wiki-blogs daily, and Skype/other similar
technologies as needed. Written feedback will be given to
students on assignments weekly. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | After taking this course, students should be better able to:
1. express a complex understanding of what is meant by culture
and how it transacts with literacy in our lives and,
particularly, in classrooms.
2. apply those understandings to literacy pedagogy and
professional learning.
3. construct stances and arguments regarding the role of
culture in literacy classrooms.
4. synthesize these understandings into new pedagogy and
professional learning. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Transaction of culture, literacy, and language in daily life
2. Transaction of culture, literacy, and language in popular
media
3. Exploration of cultural theory into classroom practice
4. Exploration of implications for future pedagogy |