BR1224:03
Critical Literacy: Text Analysis
Townsville, Cairns
Also offered at Yarrabah campus.26 lectures, 26 tutorials. Second semester flexible delivery.
Available to Tertiary Access Course II students.
Students are introduced to ways of analysing texts so that they gain control of linguistic and semiotic codes used in texts as well as the ability to expose assumptions inherent in texts, making them visible and re-visible. Possibilities for alternative readings and writings will be encouraged. A range of documents such as written texts from the students’ current academic subjects, from the media and popular culture, public everyday texts, their own writing and transcripts of talk will be interrogated for analysis. It is intended that students will have the balance of power in the classroom to give them the responsibility for providing and asking questions of texts, to be ‘oppositionally active’ and (re)position themselves as language researchers and critical language users.
Learning Objectives:
- demonstrate how texts are socially constructed;
- demonstrate how to expose assumptions in texts;
- the use of various linguistic and semiotic devices used in texts;
- the ability to identify reader and subject positioning in texts;
- how to deconstruct and reconstruct texts;
- the ability to use language critically.
Assessment by mid-semester test (40%); tutorial presentation and written paper (40%); attendance and participation (20%).
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