ENGL 205 - Promoting Community Literacy at the Chester Writers House

3 Credit(s)

This course introduces students to community engagement, writing center work, and literacy’s power to effect social change. The Chester Writers House focuses on encouraging public artistic expression; building community; exploring a sense of voice, identity, and agency; and fostering intellectual openness, an understanding of narrative capital, and the power of story as we. As Ellen Cushman suggests in “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change,” “use language and literacy to challenge and alter the circumstances of daily life.” This academic service-learning course prepares students to perform community writing center work, tutoring one-on-one, developing workshops, and fostering community relationships. After the successful completion of the course, students have the option to become permanent tutors at the Chester Writers House.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or ENGL 103.