ENGLIT 1386 - GLOBAL CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course focuses on global children's literature with a focus on sociopolitical issues that surround childhood(s). We will explore global literature that is available in the United States as well as literature published in different parts of the world for children and adolescents. We will discuss ways to integrate global literature to build intercultural understandings and perspectives. To develop a critical understanding of representations of children's experiences that are not only contemporary phenomena but have occurred historically, we will attend to conceptual complexities regarding what constitutes "global" and what constitutes "childhoods" and their interconnections. Examining literature covering the lives of children across regions and contexts, we will reflect on historical and contemporary practices affecting children and their response to these practices. In this course, our goal is to form a community of readers in which diverse, even opposing interpretations of books are welcomed. We will focus on our responses to books by exploring our different understandings, including how perspectives on children and childhood are socially and culturally constructed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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