51-2212 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.

3 Credits
HU
PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II COREQUISITES: 46-1100 Introduction to Cultural Studies or 51-1210 Introduction to Cultural Studies or51-1211 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies