Course Info: HACU-0237
| Course | HACU-0237 Fictions of Childhood |
| Long Title | Fictions of Childhood |
| Term | 2017F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 108 on M,W from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | L. Brown KennedyüRachel Conrad |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Available | 7 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) | |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend at least 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. First year students considering this class need to contact one of the instructors. |
| Description | CSI/HACU 237 Fictions of Childhood was an interdisciplinary course that combined critical approaches to childhoods with critical studies of literature. We read literary texts written for adults that feature children as subjects together with texts written for a young audience. We explored questions about the representation of children and childhoods: children's agency; memory, loss, displacement, and resilience; imagination and language; and the diversity of childhood experiences. The penultimate unit of the course involved group presentations on a pair of related texts for middle-school readers. |