COLEG-250 Rethinking Standard(ized) English: Studying Language Politics and Writing
We use language every day to communicate our ideas, perspectives, values, and beliefs, but what does our language communicate about us? How do others make assumptions related to gender, race, socioeconomic class, education, and other identity markers based on our language practices, particularly related to standardized American English (SAE)? This course will explore these questions, as well as how beliefs and values around SAE are reflected in educational, social, and political institutions and systems. Drawing on scholarship in Composition and Rhetoric, Linguistics, Education, and Literacy Studies, as well as our own personal, lived experiences, we will interrogate and analyze the relationships between language and identity, including how these relationships shape linguistic ideologies.
Writing-Intensive (18)
Credits
1
Notes
Restricted to Sophomores and Juniors
Possible Authors Include: Gloria Anzaldúa, April Baker-Bell, Vershawn Ashanti Young, Asao Inoue, Cathy Park Hong, Jonathan Rosa, Nelson Flores, Rosina Lippi-Green, Nadia Owusu, Brice Nordquist, Qianqian Zhang-Wu, among others.