LYST 209 - Language, Culture and Identity: Literacy Issues for Adolescents and Young Adults
Fall, Spring
Course examines the ways in which writing, as well as reading and other language
processes, can become tools with which adolescents and young adults negotiate
socially imposed linguistic borders based on class, race, ethnicity, previous
educational attainment and/or expectation, peer regard, gender, country of origin,
etc. Course explores the roles of writing, reading, and related language processes,
in identity formation, values clarification, and critical consciousness. Topics
include discourse theory, oral and written language variation, as well as close
examination of the language strengths and needs of learners who are biliterate,
bilingual, and/or bidialectical. A ten hour field experience is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
(Formerly LYST 217. Language, Culture, and Identity, Issues for Adolescent and
Young Adult Writers.)
Credits: 3 s.h.
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