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SI 624: Media for Children and Young Adults
What makes a great book or resource for children and young adults? This course provides an introduction to literature and media for children and young adults and provides strategies and resources for using these resources in library settings. The course content includes a survey of media, including materials for babies and pre-schoolers, and picture books, fiction, poetry, magazines, graphic novels, informational and reference materials, films and videos, and digital resources for children and young adults. In addition, the course includes practice in evaluating children's media and in using bibliographies, journals, book reviews, critical writings, Web sites, blogs, and awards lists. A discussion of the reading habits, abilities, and interests of various age groups, gender, reluctant readers, and English language learners provides a context for the evaluation and selection of materials. While this course focuses primarily on those wishing to work in school or public libraries, the skills and knowledge gained can be applied in additional settings such as classrooms or cultural organizations.
Credits: 3
Term offered: Fall
Prerequisites:
SI 501 (or taken concurrently) or permission of instructor
Other Notes:
Format is lecture with class discussion and possible guest speakers. Students are required to read/view, etc., and critically evaluate a large number of media items and keep a journal or log of this reading, viewing, listening, observing, etc. There may also be some short "evaluative" assignments. There is an individual project or term paper.
Students who have taken SI 565 and SI 570 cannot take this course.
Students who have taken either SI 565 or SI 570 and wish to work out an arrangement to cover the material from the course they did not take should contact Margaret Taylor (mttaylor@umich.edu).
A project is required
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