ENGL 2071 - Children’s Literature

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This college course intended for all students will analyze and explore the literature written for children. Students will explore 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. Childrens Literature:
2. Fantasy fiction
3. History of children¿s literature
4. Issues in childrens literature banned books, diversity, violence
5. Picture books
6. Poetry
7. Realistic fiction
8. The oral tradition folktales, mythology

1. demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in children¿s literature.
2. analyze these works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
3. articulate an informed personal reaction to works in children¿s literature
4. respond critically to works in childrens literature.
5. analyze basic literary elements in works studied.

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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