Course: Children's literature in English

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Course title Children's literature in English
Course code KAJ/QCHL@
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Dömischová Ivona, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Anténe Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Topics: Genres and their definitions. Changes in the understanding of childhood. Selected texts from Anglophone children's literature. Selected texts from Anglophone young adult literature. Censorship and social control in literature.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
After completing the course students will be able to: - know the generic variety of children's and young adult literature, - know contemporary secondary sources on children's and young adult literature, - discuss and write about children's and young adult literature by critically evaluating specific texts, - realize that reading reacts to students' social, emotional and intellectual experience, - perceive reading as an activity influenced by cultural norms (race, social class, gender, sexuality), - realize how contemporary literary and pedagogical theories influence the teaching of children's and young adult literature.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
attendance, seminar paper
Recommended literature
  • RUSSELL, D. H. Literature for Children: A Short Introduction. Boston: Pearson. 2012.
  • VODIČKOVÁ, M. Children?s Literature from the Beginning of the 20th century. Olomouc: UP. 2012.
  • VODIČKOVÁ, M. Children?s Literature up to the End of the 19th Century. Olomouc: UP. 2011.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language for Education (BB24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language for Education (BB22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language for Education (BB23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter