LIS 580: Winter 2006 - Tentative Timetable

January 11 - Introduction, assignments, etc. Case study and ethics clearance. History of studies in reading as part of history of library schools.

January 18 - Personal issues of literacy. Reading values, reading styles. Discussion of personal reading styles and impact on reading life.

January 25 - Social elements and social framing of reading.

February 1 - NO CLASS

February 8 - Conditions of reading: publishing decisions and frameworks

February 15 - Politics and practice in early reading

February 22 - READING WEEK

March 1 - Working with readers: tastes, standards and judgements

March 8 - Explaining reading: a multidisciplinary challenge

March 15 - Adult literacy and adult literacy programs

March 22 - FIELD TRIP to the Centre for Family Literacy and to the Centre for Reading and the Arts, Stanley A. Milner Branch, Edmonton Public Library

March 29 - Contexts of reading

April 5 - Reading and gender: what are the issues?

April 12 - Reading in new media