Course Description
Critical investigations of the power and potential of picturebooks as literary, artistic, and social texts in the lives of children and adults.
Athena Title
Critical Rdng Picturebooks
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 7335E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to recognize the lineage of picturebooks as well as contemporary perspectives of picturebooks.
- Students will be able to identify various types of artistic media and the significance of those media in the creation of and continuation of storylines.
- Students will be able to articulate the significance of illustrators within the literary and social realms of picturebooks.
- Students will be able to identify various ways in which youth respond to picturebooks.
- Students will be able to select and discuss contemporary picturebooks appropriate for PK-8 classrooms for instructional purposes or pleasure reading.
- Students will be able to conduct critical and multimodal analyses of picturebooks.
- Students will be able to create a draft of a picturebook or conduct research involving picturebooks.
Topical Outline
- Historical and contemporary conceptions of picturebooks
- Picturebook varieties
- Artistic Elements and Principles of Design (Picturebooks)
- Artistic Media of Picturebooks
- Visual Literacy/Visual Design Frameworks
- Understanding and Evaluating Criteria for Award-winning Picturebooks
- Critical Responses to Picturebooks
- Picturebooks as Multimedia Resources for Social Change
