ENGL 323 — A GLOBAL VIEW THROUGH CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Learning Objectives & Matches
Satisfies: Creative Thinking
Work with creative directors to develop design solutions.
Design complex graphics and animation, using independent judgment, creativity, and computer equipment.
Interpret the artistic creations of clients to assess their functioning, needs, or progress.
Develop concepts or creative ideas for craft objects.
Explore and develop musical ideas based on sources such as imagination or sounds in the environment.
Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
Organize and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their perceptual skills.
Organize and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their perceptual skills.
Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.
Prepare written opinions and decisions.
Embracing contradictions by integrating alternate, divergent, or contradictory perspectives or ideas.
Identify and resolve conflicts related to the meanings of words, concepts, practices, or behaviors.
Identify and resolve inconsistencies in interviewees' responses by means of appropriate questioning or explanation.
Organize data, and analyze and interpret its authenticity and relative significance.
Identify gaps in information.
Identify issues for research and analysis.
Study equal opportunity complaints to clarify issues.
Mediate community disputes or assist in developing alternative plans or recommendations for programs or projects.
Assemble sets of assumptions, and explore the consequences of each set.
Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
Perform failure, variation, or root cause analyses.
This course asks students to read 50 or more children’s picturebooks and several Young Adult novels that are all from diverse global perspectives. These books must have a setting outside of the United States, and are grouped in themes for students to explore: Crossing Borders, Family/Culture, and War and Peace. These books provide divergent perspectives and ideas between the books in the text-set, as well as between the students’ own experience compared to those experiences of peoples outside of the United States. Books are written by both insiders (own voices) and outsiders, which provides a way for students to think critically about the way the story might be more or less authentic based on the authorship.
Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
Write fiction or nonfiction prose, such as short stories, novels, biographies, articles, descriptive or critical analyses, and essays.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as poetry, novel structure, and translation and adaptation.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as children's literature, learning and development, and reading instruction.
Read incoming correspondence to ascertain nature of writers' concerns and to determine disposition of correspondence.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as classical political thought, international relations, and democracy and citizenship.
Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as race and ethnic relations, gender studies, and cross-cultural perspectives.
Serve as a resource to help families and schools deal with crises, such as separation and loss.
Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.