CULS 210 Critiquing Children’s Culture

This course examines varied spheres of children’s culture while introducing students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in Cultural Studies. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to exploring how children’s cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed and responded to in diverse ways. Through discussion, research and writing, class members investigate dimensions of children’s culture, learning to understand them in their broader social, aesthetic, ethical, and political contexts. Topics studied include children’s literature, animated films, teen literature, toys, public schooling, children’s games and new media.

Repeatable: N
Formerly 46-2425
HU
Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B or ENGL 111 Foundations of 21st-Century Writing or ENGL 111H Foundations of 21st-Century Writing: Honors or ENGL 112 21st-Century Writing in Creative Disciplines or ENGL 112H 21st-Century Writing in Creative Disciplines: Honors or ENGL 121 International Foundations in 21st-Century Writing or ENGL 122 International 21st-Century Writing in the Creative Disciplines or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3