-001 IEX, 11:15 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., Tu,Th (09/02/2008 - 12/10/2008) LindH 217, TCEASTBANK, Daigre, Eric Stephen, 4 credits

-002 IEX, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., W (09/02/2008 - 12/10/2008) LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, 4 credits

-003 IEX, 08:15 A.M. - 09:30 A.M., Tu,Th (09/02/2008 - 12/10/2008) LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, 4 credits

Grading basis/credits: 4 credit(s)

Liberal Educ. Reqs: Meets CLE req of Citizenship/Publ Ethics Theme; meets CLE req of Cultural Diversity Theme

Description: Students will serve as literacy workers for 2 hours a week outside of class at participating organizations in the nonprofit and educational sectors. This class combines academic study with experiential learning in order to collectively build a more engaged, complex understanding of the functions of literature, literacy, educational institutions, counter-institutional literacy programs, and the different cultures and communities in Minnesota and the Americas in general. We'll explore questions of "praxis," considering and applying our readings to the concrete circumstances of our community work, at all points trying to "make the connection" between our classroom and community work. In asking what literacy really means and what it means to be "democratic educators" in both spheres, we will challenge the distinction between classroom and community as an artifact of the modern research university. Reading: literary texts, sociological and educational theory, literacy studies. 2 papers, 2 presentations.