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Schedule

  • Course begins: 
  • Course ends: 
  • Course length: 15 weeks
Lesson 1: Getting Started and Introduction to Research in Children's Literature Studies
Lesson 1
Readings:
  • Keywords: childhood, children’s literature, theory
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
Lesson 2: Introduction to Research in Children's Literature Studies, Continued
Lesson 2
Readings:

Textbook

Other Readings
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general discussion.
Lesson 3: Epistemology and Hermeneutics
Lesson 3
Readings:

Textbook

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general discussions.
Lesson 4: Research Basics
Lesson 4
Readings:

Textbook

Other Readings

Course Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general discussions.
  • Reflection Paper 1.
Lesson 5: Literacy
Lesson 5
Readings:

Textbook

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
  • Begin work on your Keyword Project.
  • Note: If you intend to use your problem statement to prepare for writing your master's paper and your advisor is not the professor teaching this course, seek the advice and consent of your advisor for your topic and methods before the end of Lesson 5.
Lesson 6: Bibliography/Historical Studies and Web-Based Research
Lesson 6
Readings:

Textbook​

  • Keywords: censorship, classic, golden age
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
  • Continue working on your Keyword Project.  You should have your keyword selected by the end of Lesson 6. The Keyword Project is due by the end of Lesson 10.
  • Submit a statement describing your topic and methods to the Topic and Methods Assignment.
Lesson 7: Literary Theory Part One
Lesson 7
Readings:

Textbook​

  • Keywords: modernism, story, innocence
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
  • Continue working on your Keyword Project.
  • Reflection Paper 2.
Lesson 8: Literary Theory Part Two: Reader Response
Lesson 8
Readings:

Textbook
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general discussions.
  • Begin Article critique (due at the end of Lesson 9).
  • Continue working on your Keyword Project.
Lesson 9: Cultural Theory I - Marxism, Feminism, New Historical and Cultural Criticism
Lesson 9
Readings:

Textbook

  • Keywords: boyhood, class, culture, gender, girlhood, marketing, identity

E-Reserves (To access these articles, click on the Library Resources link in your Course Navigation Menu.)
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
  • Continue working on your Keyword Project.
  • Article critique due.
Lesson 10: Cultural Theory II - LGBTQ, Critical Race Theory, Post-Colonialism, Dis/Ability
Lesson 10
Readings:

Textbook
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
  • Keyword Project due.
Lesson 11: Psychology and the Spirit
Lesson 11
Readings:

Textbook

  • Keywords: home, innocence, story
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
  • Read and comment on your classmates' Keyword Projects.
  • Submit your problem statement draft to the Problem Statement Draft Discussion Forum, and give detailed feedback to three other students in the class. This forum is open for an extended period so that you can share drafts and provide feedback to one another. Replies to classmates are due by the last day of class.
Lesson 12: Linguistics/Stylistics/Structuralism
Lesson 12
Readings:

Textbook

  • Keyword:  Postmodernism
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general and keyword discussions.
  • Continue to work on your problem statement, and provide feedback to classmates.
Lesson 13: Research in Children's Literature Studies Reflections and the Final Problem Statement
Lesson 13 and Lesson 14
Readings:

 
Assignments:
  • Contribute to the general discussion.
  • Continue to work on your problem statement, and provide feedback to classmates by the last day of class.
  • Final Problem Statement due date: Monday of finals week by 11:59 PM (ET).

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