GSU 2201

Writing and Reading Children’s Literature

Students are introduced to a broad perspective of children’s literature for preschool through young adult by reading and surveying a wide range of literature from genres such as picture books, poetry, folklore, modern fantasy, realistic and historical fiction, biographies, and informational literature. The course seeks to teach students to identify redemptive spiritual elements within children’s literature and to lead future educators and writers to think about and make application of such elements to learning environments, including school, church, and home. The course familiarizes students with children’s literature so that they learn to write and design children’s literature and to select and evaluate appropriate materials for individual and group needs and interests, in order to challenge them to read more broadly as models of lifelong learners. This course fulfills the General Studies literature elective requirement.

Units: 3.0