• After completing the course, you are expected to have the ability to interpret texts using critical lens, challenge the power relations within the messages, and communicate actively in multimodal contexts

• Also, you are expected to be able to:

You will be able to describe, explain, analyze, demonstrate , critique, and reflect:

• The meanings of literacy and its related terminology such as functional literacy, information literacy, media and digital literacy , and multiliteracies ; and

• The multimodal texts related to various issues such as social, cultural, economy, politics, education, terrorism, globalization, information technology , etc.

You are able to propose solution(s) to literacy problems in social contexts:

• How particular norms , intention and motivation are inserted in the construction of texts;

• How texts are viewed from various perspectives such as from the stand points of marginalized and or disadvantaged group in terms of power relations and social inequities;

• What feasible social actions may occur in a response to the implied intention constructed in the text

• Multimodal texts : linguistic , visual, audio, gestural, tactile, and spatial modes.

• Variety of texts: in social media, books, magazines, websites, film, video, digital media, academic journals, and policy texts containing literacy issues in education, social, political, economical, national, and global contexts.