Course Description
Overview of how children's and young adult literature in schools and society function as literary and societal resources to help readers critically understand themselves, the world, and themselves within the world.
Athena Title
Survey Diverse Lit Schl & Soc
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 6310E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- By the end of the course, students will read various genres and formats of children’s and young adult literature for today’s diverse youth populations.
- By the end of the course, students will describe and differentiate between key theories associated with children’s and young adult literature.
- By the end of the course, students will apply key theories associated with children's and young adult literature when responding to and analyzing said literature.
- By the end of the course, students will identify and explore primary awards for children’s and young adult literature.
- By the end of the course, students will use key resources to identify high quality children's and young adult literature.
- By the end of the course, students will make connections between school and societal policies and practices and access to children's and young adult literature.
Topical Outline
- Conceptual understandings of children’s and young adult literature
- Transactional theories of reading literature
- Sociocultural theories of reader response and representations
- Public resources related to children’s and young adult literature
- Genres and Formats
- Primary children’s and young adult literature awards
- Accuracy, Authenticity, and Access
- Book Challenges and Censorship
- Awareness and Advocacy
