HUM6102 - Gardens, Streets & Playgrounds

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

(1) demonstrate knowledge of a range of texts written since 1914 for and about children/adolescents
(2) demonstrate an awareness of some key historical developments affecting children and adolescents in the twentieth century.
(3) Apply in analysis of texts and understanding of the changing conceptulisation of childhood and adolescence in a range of political and socio-cultural contexts.
(4) Demonstrate an understanding of key literary critical and historiographical debates concerning childhood and adolescence.
(5) Demonstrate oral presentation skills appropriate to a group presentation, and individual research and writing skills.

Content:

Students will make a close study of a range of texts from the twentieth and twenty first centuries which are either for children/adolescents in a major element. They will explore selected historical topics (eg war, its nature and impact on the lives of children/adolescents) and critically analyse appropriate texts in the light of these topics.

Students will be encouraged to examine works in relation to literary modes (eg fantasy, realism), and to socio-cultural and political debates (eg education, disability, and teenage culture)

Students will be encouraged to examine the literary, cultural and filmic arts that bring stories, poems and ideas within the circule of a child’s/adolescent’s awareness.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures/Workshops
Contact hours 36
Number of groups 1

Assessment:

001 Assessed essay 1 x 1000 words 25%
002 Assessed essay 1 x 2000 words 50%
003 Oral presentation & Reflective commentary 15-20 minutes / 1 x 500 words 25%


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