WRLS 2301 Multilingual Writing in Academic and Community Contexts
In this course, students will explore how we navigate and shuttle among a variety of linguistically diverse communities and what strategies we use as we draw on all our language resources to make meaning and achieve specific aims. This course is proposed for the Core area of 090 Integrative/Experiential Learning option. Course readings, activities, individual and collaborative projects, and community engagement projects are designed to provide students with opportunities to explore, though ethnographic methodologies, how different languages and language variations are used and negotiated through writing in a variety of academic and community-based environments. Students will not only student the use of language and literacy in different academic and community situations but they will also have the opportunity to use language and literacy practices to convey meaning for specific purposes appropriate for the audience and circumstance.