Annotation, History & Justice is the first course in Pathway B: Critical Annotation & Re/Marks on Power. It challenges learners to see annotation not only as a personal literacy practice but as a civic, historical, and political act — one that has been used for centuries to inscribe authority, contest injustice, and compose counternarratives. Where Course 2 asks "How do we read together?" this course asks "What are we reading for? Whose marks matter?"
Analyze how annotation inscribes, contests, and rewrites narratives of history, memory, and power
Apply the concept of re/marks — annotation traces collectively read and rewritten to advance counternarratives and more just social futures
Examine case studies of annotation as critical literacy across public and civic settings
Distinguish between annotation that reinforces dominant narratives and annotation that disrupts them
Compose critical annotations in response to texts, spaces, and discourses that matter to you