|
Core Course Listings and Syllabi
To be able to download the pdf files you need Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
LLC 600 (Syllabus)
|
| |
Language, Literacy, and Culture [3]
This course is designed to introduce students to the ways in which social structuring,
cultural assumptions, and language use bear on public policy formation and
interactions in such areas as the multicultural classroom, the professions,
government, business
and industry, and social service agencies. |
| |
| LLC 601 (Syllabus) |
| |
Intercultural Pragmatics [3]
The course investigates the linguistic and semiotic underpinnings of human communication:
the sorts of structuring that communicative codes themselves impose on interaction,
the social constraints within which it operates, and the role
context plays in understanding the complexities of discourse. It addresses the
structure of communicative events, the management of discourse behavior, and
the rules for constructing different kinds of events. Also listed as MLL 601. |
| |
| LLC 606 (Syllabus) |
| |
Social Inequality and Social Policy [3]
The course examines poverty and inequality in modern society. The focus is on
describing the extent of poverty and inequality, examining theories that attempt
to explain these phenomena, and discussing the policies that have been employed
to mitigate
them. In addition to class inequality, the course also considers racial and sexual
inequality. Also listed as SOCY 606. |
| |
| LLC 610 (Syllabus) |
| |
Theorizing Identity in Multicultural Contexts [3]
This course examines the changing dynamics of identity formation and transformation
as they are mediated through contemporary experiences of race, gender, ethnicity,
class, sexuality, and nation. A wide range of personal narratives and case studies are analyzed using different socio-cultural theories of identity. Also listed as AMST 610. |
| |
| LLC 611 (Syllabus) |
| |
Constructing Race, Class, and Gender [3]
This course provides an interdisciplinary examination of the complex array and
interplay of structural and cultural limitations on individual and group mobility
in contemporary American society. Using a range of approaches, the course defines
and clarifies
the limitations of these dominant social categories by problematizing and interrogating
four important social categories: race, class, gender, and schooling. Also listed
as EDUC 611 and SOCY 611. |
| |
| LLC 616 (Syllabus) |
| |
Cyberspace, Culture, and Society [3]
This course explores the cultural and societal implications of computer-mediated
communication by addressing such topics as representation of self and self-identity
in cyberspace; interactions in cyberspace; information technology and institutional
change; community formation in cyberspace; democracy and collective action,
and order and deviance in cyberspace. The cultural and social effects of contemporary
technological advances are compared and contrasted with previous technologies
such as the printing press, wireless, telephone, and television. Also listed
as SOCY
616. |
| |
| LLC 635 (Syllabus) |
| |
Socio-cultural Theories of Learning and Human Interaction [3]
This seminar examines the process of human learning from an ecological or socio-cultural
perspective across diverse contexts, including the effects of
differences in cultural, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds of student and teacher,
differences
in learning styles and educational assumptions, and institutional catalysts or
barriers to
student achievement. The role of social interaction in learning is also addressed.
Also
listed as EDUC 635. |
| |
| LLC 640 (Syllabus) |
| |
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Race, Society, and Culture [3]
This course explores critical social issues through analysis and discussion of
works by contemporary authors who have shaped critical discourse in relationship
to issues
of freedom, truth, and dignity. The course focuses on personal, social, intellectual,
and aesthetic challenges to modern discourse as well as the dialectics of change
and order. Also listed as AFST 640. |
| |
| LLC 641 (Syllabus) |
| |
Community, Literacy and Computer-Assisted Writing [3]
This course
investigates the impact of technology–rich writing spaces on communication, community, and literacy. Students examine and practice the ways community affects the development of writing processes. Additionally, they consider the ways electronic writing spaces enable new kinds of communities and the literacy expectations of those communities.
Also listed as ENGL 641. |
| |
| LLC 644 (Syllabus) |
| |
Methods of Language, Literacy and Culture Research [3]
This course is designed to provide you with graduate-level understanding of social science research methods. Our major objectives are to understand the various components and stages of the social science research; and to learn how to design your own manageable research project. |
| |
|
