We’ll be using a number of open-education resources (OER) and published academic articles for this course.

Refer to the table below for which pages to read for each week. In some cases we’ll have some additional readings.

For week of…Reading
September 15find one of the research articles referred to on this site and skim Stanford research
September 22Díaz, Edgar; Wadhwa, Kanushri. (2026) “African slavery was becoming an essential part”: Examining language, agency, and power in the representation of enslavement in U.S. history textbooks (TRU login required)
September 29
October 6Feedback Literacy
AI Agreement Draft
October 13 (reading for October 15)Mai, Y., & Jocuns, A. (2023). A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reports on Covid-19 from The New York Times and China Daily. Manusya: Journal of Humanities, 26(1), 1-28. (TRU login required)