| Course ID: | LLED 8330E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Popular Culture in Literacy Classrooms |
Course
Description: | How schools should respond to popular culture especially in
terms of literacy teaching and learning. Popular culture
celebrates an end to elitism built on subjective notions of
taste. It consists of everyday practices that connect a group
of people to each other in particular times and places. |
| Oasis Title: | Popular Culture Lit Classrooms |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LLED 8330 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will:
1. trace the origins of the term popular culture and its
intersections with literacy
2. identify and study in depth one or more common theoretical
frames that embrace popular culture in literacy classrooms
3. read and discuss key research studies and conceptual pieces
that connect popular culture to students' literate
identities
4. prepare a manuscript that is ready for submission to a peer-
reviewed journal on this question: To what extent, and in
which manner should schools respond to popular culture,
especially in terms of literacy teaching and learning? |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Theoretical frames for popular culture
2. Fandom and fan fiction
3. Gendered issues
4. Zines vs. magazines
5. Blogs that connect to curricular content
6. Audiences for popular culture
7. Global popular media (e.g. anime, manga and hip-hop)
8. Forums for communicating popular culture (social networking
sites, chatting, text messaging)
9. Social identities constructed through popular culture
10. Videos and gaming
11. Popular culture viewed through a critical medial literacy
lens
12. Semiotic power of multimodal pop culture websites
13. Limited access to popular culture through the Internet
inside schools
14. 21st century texts mediated by popular culture |