ACL 135 — Crit Literacies & Empowerment
This is a personal and practical course through which students explore their own literacy processes and practices, reflecting upon the role that literacy has played in shaping their own lives, experiences, and identities and interrogating ideologies they hold about literacy and literate practice. Reflecting upon the ways in which they have been socialized into literacy practices, students will examine how their own literacy practices have been valued or negated, discuss literacy practices as both markers of identity and as tools for building identity, and reflect upon the relationship between their own literacy practices and their personal agency, voice, community engagement, and socioeconomic capital. A key aspect of this course will be engaging students in critical discussions of the concept of “cultural literacy” and its relationship to power, applying these discussions to their own lives.