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ENCO410 Children's Literature: Picture Books and Fantasy

Updated: 22 July 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions EdLDC261 or ENCO210 or ENCO310
Notes

Offered in odd numbered years

Combined Units ENCO310 - Children's Literature: Picture Books and Fantasy
Coordinator(s) Elizabeth Hale (ehale@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

The unit introduces literature for young children, focussing primarily on the picture book, together with fantasy novels for a middle-childhood readership. The unit has a literary and cultural studies approach, exploring concepts of readership, visual literacy, learned competencies, cultural constructions of the child and of children's literature, and applies these concepts to a range of representative texts. It is not concerned with questions of curriculum development or classroom practice.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory
Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

The Changeover
ISBN: 9780007243525
Mahy, M., Harper Collins 2007
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Charlotte's Web
ISBN: 9780141317342
White, E.B., Penguin
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
The Tombs of Atuan
ISBN: 9780689845369
Le Guin, U., Puffin
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Recommended Material
Optional
Text(s):

Note: Recommended material is held in the University Library - purchase is optional

Dog In, Cat Out ...
ISBN: 9781862911277
Rubinstein, G. and James, A., Scholastic Australia 1991
Note: This text will be studied in Week 2.
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Where the Wild Things Are
ISBN: 9780099408390
Sendak, M., Red Fox 2000
Note: This text will be studied in Week 3.
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat
ISBN: 9780140503067
Wagner, J. and Brooks, R., Puffin 1980
Note: This text will be studied in Week 4.
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
The Jolly Postman, or other People's Letters
ISBN: 9780670886241
Ahlberg, J. and Ahlberg, A., Viking Children's Books 1999
Note: This text will be studied in Week 5.
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Memorial
ISBN: 9780734405456
Crew, G. and Tan, S., Hachette Australia 2003
Note: This text will be studied in Week 6.
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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