SCANDINAVIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing and SCAND ST 202 , 212 , or 222 , or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare knowledge of diverse Nordic childhoods and how they are represented in a variety of written texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply creative and critical thinking, historical thinking, and literary and media analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Employ and express skills of literary analysis by interpreting texts in multiple genres - including novels, tales, and short stories - in class discussion and especially in writing. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply knowledge of current scholarship in the fields of children's literature, childhood studies, and Nordic literary studies in class discussion and formal papers. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare knowledge of diverse Nordic childhoods and how they are represented in a variety of written texts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply creative and critical thinking, historical thinking, and literary and media analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Employ and express skills of literary analysis by interpreting texts in multiple genres - including novels, tales, and short stories - in class discussion and especially in writing. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply knowledge of current scholarship in the fields of children's literature, childhood studies, and Nordic literary studies in class discussion and formal papers. Audience: Graduate