Experimental Literature through the Perspective of Literacy as a Social Practice

This is the first course that I have designed. This course fuses two of my strongest passions. This course attempts to fuse the world of experimental literature and New Literacy Studies. How they influence each other and how we can move forward in both domains with the lens of the other.

Course Description

Literacy as a Cultural practice explores literacy in a nontraditional model including, not only reading and writing but socio-cultural, psychological and systematic influences. Experiential forms a Literature challenge the traditional ideas of print literacy to incorporate unconventional ideas of literature.

Course readings, assignments and discussions focus on what it means to say that literacies extend beyond mastery of a process that leads to acts of reading and writing, but is also a cultural, social, historical, and political practice that is closely tied to issues of identities and transformative practices.

Course Overview

This upper division undergraduate seminar examines different perspectives on literacies and literate practices, the impact of new technologies and experimental forms of literature on literacies in and out of schools, and the power relations and equity questions embedded within decisions about what count as literature, literacies and literate practices. This course will also explore the various movements within experimental literature and how to converge the two perspectives of thought.

This course and syllabus design is influenced by Dr. Veronica Eileen Valdez, Assistant Professor, Education, Culture and Society, University of Utah. ©

Course Design Grid-Experimental Literature/Multiliteracy  ©

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