Orality and Literacy
Margaret Mills profile
T 3-5
Major lines of study of the subject of literacy are traceable in at least three disciplines: history of western literature (especially classical and medieval studies), anthropology, and ethnography of education, including education development in the Third World and psychological and developmental education theory and practice. The linkages between oral and literary communicative modes in different cultures are understudied, from a folklorist's viewpoint. The overall task of the course is not to isolate topics of narrowly defined folkloric interest in the broad field of literacy, but to integrate and critique the diverse approaches to literacy as a communicative mode or modes, from the point of view of folklore as a discipline.
updated 2006-03-28
