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TCH-ED 351
Literature for A Lifetime
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This course will provide students with an encompassing survey of fiction and non-fiction literature appropriate for all age ranges from the young child to adult. Lectures and discussions will focus on the value of literature as a tool for thinking, as a way of illuminating modern life, as a means of understanding history and human behavior, and as a source of aesthetic pleasure and lifelong enjoyment. Students will learn how to select and critique both the media used in illustrated books and the literacy techniques and forms of the many genre of literature. In this course special emphasis will be placed on literature that reflects life in many cultures and periods of history, in particular from those racial and ethnic sources that make modern America such a pluralistic and diverse society. There will also me an emphasis on the universal themes that run through literature of the societies.Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the Institute for Urban Education.
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Faculty:
School of Education
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Department:
Curriculum and Instruct Ldrshp
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