ENG 206 - Critical Literacies and Community Writing

This course provides an opportunity to explore public discourse, to see how dominant cultural expressions shape members of communities as well as how individuals and groups shape cultural messages. Students will critically observe and analyze public texts and events. The course is based upon the idea that bringing the texts in their lives to attention as material for reflection and deliberation provides students an opportunity to identify the rhetorical patterns used to enact community aims and to empower students to develop a voice in this public forum. Often includes experiential learning projects through community engagement and service-learning. Some sections of this course may be offered as hybrid courses or online only. [DEI] (Offered every semester.) 3 credits