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Dec 07, 2024
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ENG 3670 - Social Change and Writing Centers
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Description: Students explore how writing centers can function to promote social change or to reinforce the status quo. Students study how writing centers can both empower and oppress. Students conduct ethnographic research in writing centers, examining how race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, language, disability, and other aspects of identity come into play in writing tutoring and writing center pedagogy. Students study and apply theories and methods from literacy studies, disability studies, and composition studies. Students who complete this course are qualified to work as peer consultants in the MSU Denver Writing Center.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
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