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Children's & Adolescent Literature Study

This course introduces students to the importance of children's and adolescent literature. It focuses on reading, analyzing, and evaluating various literary genres for young people. The literature is important as it allows young readers to develop their understanding of themselves and their world, and helps them navigate the physical, cognitive, social, and philosophical changes they experience as they grow. Students will study award-winning books and discuss how literature can assist in child and adolescent development. They will also learn how to evaluate literary merit in young adult literature and situate works in their appropriate historical and cultural contexts.

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Children's & Adolescent Literature Study

This course introduces students to the importance of children's and adolescent literature. It focuses on reading, analyzing, and evaluating various literary genres for young people. The literature is important as it allows young readers to develop their understanding of themselves and their world, and helps them navigate the physical, cognitive, social, and philosophical changes they experience as they grow. Students will study award-winning books and discuss how literature can assist in child and adolescent development. They will also learn how to evaluate literary merit in young adult literature and situate works in their appropriate historical and cultural contexts.

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This course is designed to introduce the learner of the importance of studying children’s and

adolescent literature, its meaning and its concepts. Children’s literature is important because it provides
students with opportunities to respond to literature; it gives students appreciation about their own
cultural heritage as well as those of others; it helps students develop emotional intelligence and
creativity; it nurtures growth and development of the student’s personality and social skills; and it
transmits important literature and themes from one generation to the next. Children's and Adolescents'
Literature focuses on reading, analyzing and evaluating various literary genres for children and
adolescents. Students will examine the literary elements and values presented in classic and modern
picture books, fiction, fairy tales and poetry. Children's books that have won the Newbery and Caldecott
Awards will be studied and discussed.

Children and young people experience a series of profound changes: they must contend with
the physical changes of puberty, with more complex cognitive abilities, with a new focus on the
centrality of friendship and other peer relationships, with the beginnings of the search for self, and with
a growing questioning of who they are, who God is, and where they stand in relation to various
philosophical positions. Literature written for these age groups is of the utmost importance in assisting
children and adolescents to navigate the challenges that accompany their development, increasing their
understanding of who they are and the world in which they live. Through the processes of reading,
creative writing, and class discussion, students will develop a deeper understanding of the literary
genres available to children and young adults, and to appreciate how younger people learn through the
reading of literature. This unit will provide opportunities for students to evaluate the literary merit of
children’s, adolescent and young adult literature, which has customarily been marginalized in terms of
the Western literary canon, and to situate them in their historical, cultural, and gender contexts.
Students will also examine the relevance of a variety of issues to the reading and teaching of such
literature, such as: theory and practice, literacy, literary criticism, and the relation of adolescent and
young adult literature to ‘classic’ literature.

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