This course introduces the concepts the new literacies in the 21st century as an evolving social phenomena and shared cultural practices across learning areas.  The 1st century literacies shall include (a) globalization and multicultural literacy (b) social literacy (c) media literacy (d) financial literacy (e) cyber literacy/digital literacy (f) eco-literacy, and (g) arts and creativity literacy. Field based interdisciplinary explorations and other teaching strategies shall be used in this course.