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Research Innovations and Pressing Issues in Language and Literacy
EDU H725AY

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Description

Research Innovations and Pressing Issues in Language and Literacy  serves as the core convening for the Literacy and Languages concentration, scheduled during the Wednesday Concentration Time block. Students will engage with researchers, practitioners, and authors who will share their ongoing work in literacy and language, nationally and internationally, with opportunities to interact with faculty and peers from other concentrations. These sessions will include being in conversation with many forms of literacy, such as representational art, historical sites, and graphics. Students must attend all of the core convening sessions to receive credit.

Class Notes

Students who declare the concentration will be enrolled automatically in this course during open enrollment.

School Graduate School of Education
Credits 2
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Department Education
Course Component Regular Course
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Requirements Limited to students in the L&L Concentration
Learning Goals Students will learn about literacy research locally, nationally, and internationally. Students will learn how qualitative and quantitative research is applied in literacy policy and practice. Students will experience literacy practices in formal and informal learning contexts. Students will engage in literacy research and its implications for practice and policy.
Career Focus <p>Literacy research, PK-12<br>Literacy instruction, PK-12<br>Literacy curriculum design<br>Literacy policy development and implications, PK-12</p>