CI 569

Spring 2020

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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 584. See ENGL 584.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
32288
Lecture-Discussion
E
1:00PM -3:50PM
W
125 English Building
Mortensen, P
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/20-05/06/20
Section Title:
Social History of Illiteracy
Section Info:
A Social History of Illiteracy in the United States - Think illiteracy is useless? Ever since “illiterate” circulated as an epithet on the cusp of the American Revolution, ever since antebellum enumeration of the nation’s “illiteracy” revealed stark regional disparities in educational access, ever since “illiteracy” in the white countryside became a benchmark against which white metropolitan progress could be evaluated, ever since “illiteracy” became excuse enough to bar African American citizens in the South from voting, ever since anxiety about English-language “illiteracy” justified delaying statehood for territories expropriated from México, ever since “literacy” emerged as a euphemism for “illiteracy” in the campaign to limit immigration from Asia and Europe—ever since the founding of the United States and through its emergence as a global superpower, illiteracy has proven, time and again, to be so pervasively useful that its usefulness is scarcely noticed. To explore how illiteracy has been used over time in the U.S., toward what ends, for whose benefit, and at what costs, we will read and discuss relevant scholarship from a range of academic disciplines: writing studies, of course, but also rhetorical studies, literary studies, history, sociology, and economics. Additionally, we will examine numerous primary documents or their digital surrogates. Your presentations and writing for the seminar should enable you to investigate questions germane to your research interests.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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