ENG 117 - Children’s Literature

 
Description
This course introduces and surveys children’s literature, including poetry, picture books, fables, folktales, myths, realistic and fantastic fiction and nonfiction. A reading knowledge of representative, noteworthy children’s texts and their evaluative review is emphasized. Critical issues in children’s literature are examined and debated.

1. Identify significant historic milestones and literary movements in the development of children’s literature.
2. Examine the historic and contemporary classics of children’s literature, including authors and illustrators.
3. Analyze principal issues and more recent scholarship in children’s literature, such as censorship, didacticism, feminism, multiculturalism and post modernism.
4. Devise practical strategies for engaging children with literature and encouraging meaningful response.
5. Evaluate children’s literature for bias/stereotypes such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation and ability/disability.
6. Develop communication skills by analyzing the literature through writing, discussion and presentation.

1. Children’s poetry: nursery rhymes, classics and contemporary
2. Picture and illustrated books: classics and contemporary
3. Fables, folktales/fairytales, legends, epics and myths
4. Fiction: realism and fantasy both classics and contemporary
5. Nonfiction
6. Literary criticism: critical issues of debate and recent scholarship
7. Periods of development of children’s literature

• Communication
• Culture Society & Citizenship

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