Course description: Social Justice in a Digital World: Narrative, New Media, and Advocacy
Proposed bachelor’s level elective (could be open to MSWs)
Prepared by Suzanne England
January 31, 2010
This course focuses on language and narrative--written, oral, and graphic—and the ways that experience, life views, and power are communicated in order to control or change social relations. Communication shapes our perceptions of the world and of social problems and solutions. The tools of narrative inquiry can deepen our awareness of how language constructs our discourses about events, public policy, professional practices, and politics, and the particular ways that mass and social media shape our understanding and behavior. Using a collaborative learning model the course is designed for active reflexive participation. All participants, including the instructor, will be expected to develop a critical analysis of a public debate, examine the narratives and modes of communication of advocacy networks and movements, and critically reflect upon the narrative construction of normalcy and otherness.
National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo: 3 Days In!
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I have been successful with writing poems for the first two days of
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6 years ago
Suzanne, this seems like a wonderful course you are creating. Would love to take (or teach!) it.
ReplyDeleteAs you continue to develop this, will you also share some of the resources you are considering using as a reference or required reading list? Doing this may help others struggling through the same issue (thus building community), as well as gain some feedback from others who may be able to add to the recommendations.
Jeffrey