LIT-208 Literacy, Diversity, and Ideas of America

This course explores the history of literacy in North America through autobiographical accounts of learning to read and the cultural contexts within which learning occurs. Works by Franklin, Douglass, Alcott, Wilder, Angelou, Rodriguez, and Erdrich; selected educational materials, such as primers, the Algonquian Bible, The Columbian Orator, poems educators hoped would create the American Melting Pot, and books targeted at children. Attention to access (or barriers) to reading affected by educational policies and laws, language of instruction, and the growth of libraries.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Offered

Spring

Notes

(History and SSIH). Not offered in 2021-2022.