Disciplinary Literacy, Intensified

Disciplinary Literacy, Intensified will focus on specialized literacy strategies unique to content area disciplines. This course is for students that have specific interests to explore in research assignments. This course will address both content area literacy as well as discipline specific literacy skills. The focus of this course is to engage in discipline specific reading and writing while analyzing primary sources as a historian, reviewing data, charts and graphs as a mathematician or scientist, and utilizing argument writing for defending conclusions. Students will be taught the ways literacy is used to create, disseminate, and critique information in the various disciplines. Students will have opportunities for determining research topics and creative thinking in assignments.