Undergraduate Students
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The Children's Literature program is designed by individual undergraduate students so each can meet their own interests and strengths. It provides a useful background for many areas of professional work and study.
The Children's Literature certificate fulfills the A&S requirement for related areas. It is a planned interdisciplinary sequence of a minimum of 18 credits. Comp 7/21/08 ertificate of completion is issued.
Required Core Courses (3 credits each)
- Englit 0560 Children and Culture**
- Englit 0562 Childhoods' Books**
- Englit 1645 Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
** ENGLIT 0560 and 0562 are prerequisites for ENGLIT 1645 and must be taken prior to registering for 1645.
Note: Click here for Graduation Requirements.
Course of Study
In addition to the three core classes, students should design their own course of study to complete the remaining 9 credits. At least one of these courses should be a Category 1 (humanities) course, and one a Category 2 (social sciences) class. The other course can come from either category. But the following list of courses represents a series of possibilities rather than an exhaustive listing and should be viewed as a general guide; related courses offered in any given term may be substituted by written consent of the program director. Not all of the courses listed below are available in every term. Check with your advisor for updated courses.
Category One
- CLASS 0030, Mythology and the Ancient World
- COMMRC 1105, Television and Society
- COMMRC 1122, Media Criticism
- COMMRC 1126, Media and Consumer Culture
- ENGCMP 0500, Topics in Composition
- ENGCMP 1552, The Uses of Literacy
- ENGLIT 0530, HA&A 0820 Film Analysis
- ENGLIT 0550, Introduction to Popular Culture
- ENGLIT 0644, Myth and Folktale
- ENGLIT 0645, Fantasy and Romance
- ENGLIT 1480, Topics in Film: Youth Film
- ENGLIT 1647, Literature for Adolescents
- ENGLIT 1648, Education and Children’s Literature
- ENGLIT 1649, Topics in Children’s Literature
- ENGLIT 1752, Television Analysis
- GER 1502, Indo-European Folktales
- HIST 1134, European Families
- PHIL 0010, Concepts of Human Nature
- RUSS 0090, Russian Fairy Tales
- SLAV 0660: Sci-Fi: East and West
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NOTE: Either EngLit 0562: Childhood's Books or EngLit 0655: Representing Adolescence may be taken as a Category One elective, provided that you take the other to fulfill your "core" requirement. In other words, if you take one of them to fulfill the "core" requirement, you can take the other and count it as a Category One elective.
Category Two
- AFRCNA 0311, Introduction to the African-American Family
- ANTH 0710, Folklore and Cultural Diversity
- ANTH 0780, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- EDUC 2110, Gender and Education
- HPS 0437, Darwinism and Its Critics
- I&L 1230, Introduction to English Education
- I&L 1231/2231, Reading and Language Arts in the Intermediate Grades
- IL 1246, Theory & Practice: Multicultural Literature
- I&L 1580, Foundations of Special Education
- PSY 0310, Developmental Psychology
- PSYED 1001, Introduction to Educational Psychology
- PSYED 1003, Adolescent Psychology
- PSYED 1026, Child and Youth Development 1
- SOC 0426, Society and the Child
- SOC 0438, Sociology of the Family
- SOC 0478, Youth and Society
- SOC 0479, Sociology of Education
- WOMNST 0100, Introduction to Women’s Studies
** New Course Added!
Graduation Requirements
Students must submit an application for their Children's Literature certificate at the same time that they apply for graduation. If an application is not submitted, the certificate cannot be issued until after graduation. A late fee applies to students who submit an application to receive their certificate after graduation.
Completion of the certificate is noted on the student's graduation record. The certificate itself is typically issued in the semester following graduation and is reviewed and signed by the Director of the Children's Literature program. However, if you graduate at the end of the Spring semester you will receive your certificate in the following Fall semester. It is essential that you supply the Director with a current home address which will be applicable after you have graduated so that your certificate can be mailed.