Reading Department Office
Mary Unser, Secretary email

Linda Papa, Secretary  email

OVERVIEW
About the CAS Program

Admissions

PROGRAM PLANNING
Program Planning Guide

Program Planning worksheet

Advanced Standing (transfer courses)

COURSEWORK
Reading courses

Allied courses

Listing of advanced courses

Continuous Enrollment

EXAMINATIONS

Overview

CAS Research Project

Comprehensive Exam

ASSISTANTSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS

Overview

Application

OTHER INFORMATION
Statute of Limitations

Residency

Annual Review

Forms

CAS Reading Courses

Core Coursework in Reading for all CAS students:

ERDG710:Literacy as Social Practice or

ERDG711:Literacy as Social Reproduction and Transformation

ERDG756:Texts and teaching in Literacy Learning or

ERDG757:Research on Preparing Literacy Teachers

ERDG781:Literacy Learning and Development Across the Lifespan or

ERDG782: Psycholinguistics and Reading

Additional Core Coursework in Reading ONLY for CAS students preparing for Comprehensive Examination:

CAS students in this track will take the same courses as PhD students. The Comprehensive Examination requires coursework in three literacy 'domains':

 
• The nature and acquisition of literacy across the lifespan--emphasizing what literacy is (multiple views including psychological and sociocultural) and how it is acquired (or “emerges”, or “develops”, sometimes with difficulty) throughout the lifespan. Core courses for the domain are:

• Nature and acquisition of literacy in the early years
• Nature and acquisition of literacy beyond the early years
• Psychology of literacy

 
• Literacy and schooling--emphasizing how we think about the practical, interactional, and institutional aspects of literacy. The focus is schooling and schooled literacy and institutional practices like instruction, assessment, differential treatment, classification, organization of instruction for children with difficulties, curriculum, teacher education, in schools and other institutions.  Core courses for this domain are:

• Literacy curricula and teaching
• Literacy teaching and learning in schools (Micro/Macro analysis of school practices)

 
• Literacy and society--emphasizing how literacies are situated social and cultural practices, includes critical social theory, critical literacies, sociological perspectives, anthropological perspectives, social policy perspectives, and the entanglements of literacy and society such as class, gender, disability, and culture.  Core courses in this domain are:

• Critical and social theories and literacy research
• Literacy and society

Cross-domain courses. You are required to take a minimum of two courses from the department in each domain, although you may designate a “cross-domain” course to fulfill one of the required two courses in any given domain. The domain in which you designate the course will depend primarily on the emphasis you have taken in the course in projects and optional readings. New courses developed by department members will be designated as fulfilling particular domain requirements. All courses address historical aspects and critical reading of research. The cross-domain courses are:

• Difficulties with literacy learning
• Literacies, technologies and media
• Special topics courses. These occasional courses might include, for example, the History of literacy research. The department will designate these as core courses in specific domains.

The department recognizes that circumstances can arise in which a non-core course, within or outside the department, might partially fulfill the requirements for a particular domain, though it has not been designated as a core course. In consultation with your advisor, you may petition the department to have the course so designated.

Other Coursework in Reading

In consultation with your advisor, you may select appropriate coursework with an ERDG prefix (600- and 700-level courses).