Multicultural Literacy

For Rising Seniors Only! This course open to seniors only focuses on domestic and global literature by and about BIPOC writers. Using a critical literacy lens, students will explore universal 21st-century themes including identity and culture, modern social conflict, injustice and resolution, and diverse, multicultural perspectives. A special emphasis will be placed upon students' development and expression of 21st-century competencies to include critical thinking, collaboration, creative productivity, student voice, and anti-discriminatory mindsets. Students will examine multi-genre literature by comparing/contrasting, analyzing, critiquing, and challenging literary traditions. Additionally, students will engage in research work as they question the dimensions and tensions between literature and society. Students will refine skills of written and oral communication as they interrogate, not only writers' expressions of literary conventions in their work, but also the socio-cultural contexts and spheres of influence that situate the writ students explore.