Children's Literature (OT36)

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This course explores the complexities of texts within the genre of children’s literature from a literary perspective. Student will focus on understanding how to approach and engage with children’s literature to better understand and appreciate its complexities and nuances, from defining the genre and its rich and complicated history to its dual audiences of adults and children and its dual purposes of teaching and entertaining. This class explores how to best read children’s literature, the pedagogical implications of working with children’s literature, and children’s literature as an academic genre worthy of literary study.