ENGL 2071 - Children’s Literature: Introduction to Literary Studies

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab None
Course Description: This college literature course intended for all students focuses on the analysis and exploration of literature written. Topics include the history of children’s literature, children’s poetry, picture books, realistic and fantasy novels, as well as criteria for evaluating these works. Selections may include works by E.B. White, J.K. Rowling, Mildred Taylor, and Christopher Paul Curtis.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content

1. Children’s Literature
2. Fantasy fiction
3. History of children’s literature
4. Issues in children’s literature banned books, diversity, violence
5. Picture books
6. Poetry
7. Realistic fiction
8. The oral tradition - folktales, mythology
9. Using primary and secondary sources

1. describe the scope and variety of works in children’s literature.
2. identify major critical frameworks at an introductory level.
3. perform close analysis of children’s literature at an introductory level.
4. employ major critical frameworks to analyze children’s literature at an introductory level.
5. incorporate and document secondary sources at an introductory level.
6. articulate an informed personal reaction to children’s literature.
7. analyze children’s literary texts as expressions of individual and human values within historical and social contexts.

06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.

06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.

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