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LYST 223 - Introduction to Critical Literacy and Critical Media Studies


Semester Hours: 3
January
Exploration of literacy instruction in relation to larger social purposes of teaching, and in relations to the forces of acculturation in society. Information received from print and electronic media sources is critiqued and ways in which the words we hear and read, and the images we view, shape our subjectivities and our understanding of the world around us are explored. Participants engage the possibilities of teaching in ways that open up a more conscious and liberating approaches to literacy instruction in schools and society.





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