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ENCO410 Children's Literature: Picture Books and Fantasy

Updated: 02 September 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering Not offered in 2010
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.

Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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