ENG 655 Disciplinary Discourses: Advanced Literacy, Technology, and Power
Spring 2006

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference--McLuhan

While many current studies in literacy theory and research have emphasized the need to study literacies in their local, social contexts, the dominant ideologies of literacy are still those that are defined and determined by the politics, policies, and mandates of powerful and influential social structures and interests of governments, education systems, corporations. This course will provide an opportunity to explore some of the "big" literacies and discourses of technology and power that impact the public and society in a number of important arenas, such as the environment, schooling, local culture, health, information media, and so forth.

This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself--McLuhan