C Survey - Children's Literature

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Term hours: 54 lecture. This course surveys the historical and cultural development of children's literature throughout the world, while emphasizing the important role that literature must assume in the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children. Tracing the multicultural origins of the oral tradition to the current standards of written excellence and pictorial artistry, this course concentrates on the nursery rhymes, poetry, folk tales, myth, sacred literature, picture books, juvenile literature, and non-fiction. Comparative and critical approaches are used to analyze children's literature from a multicultural perspective. (UC/CSU, AA GE, CalGETC, C-ID:ENGL 180)