The OSU Literacy Studies Working Group and

The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities

invite you to join us for

Dimensions of Literacy at OSU

“Competencies”

STEVE ACKER, Director, Learning Technologies Research and Innovation

TELR & School of Journalism and Communication

“Health Literacy”

SANDY CORNETT, Director, AHEC Health Literacy Program

Office of Health Sciences, School of Allied Medical Professions

“Visual Literacy”

STEPHEN PENTAK, Associate Dean,

College of the Arts

“Biology and Science Literacy”

STEVE RISSING, Director, Introductory Biology Program

Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

“Literacy Outreach”

MINDY WRIGHT, Director, Writing Workshop

Thursday, December 2

3:00 - 5:00 pm

George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15^th Avenue

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.

Please let us know if you plan to attend at 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu

Literacy Studies at OSU: A New Initiative

We are developing a Literacy Studies Working Group, for 2004-2006, with the aim of fostering a sense of collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, medicine, and law. The Literacy Studies Working Group intends to foster a critical, cross-campus conversation and investigation into the nature of literacy, bringing historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of understanding together to stimulate new institutional and intellectual relationships.

Harvey J. Graff , Departments of English & History; Mollie Blackburn, Language, Literacy and Culture, School of Teaching and Education; Marcia Farr, Language, Literacy and Culture, School of Teaching and Education, & English; Kay Bea Jones, School of Architecture; Beverly Moss, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, Department of English; Amy Shuman, Center for Folklore Studies, Department of English