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Dec 22, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog [Current Academic Year]
Children’s and Young Adult Literature [BA]
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Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Children’s and Young Adult Literature have the opportunity to interact with works of children’s and young adult literature in multiple ways. Students choose a concentration (literary analysis, publishing, or theatre for the young) that best prepares them for their chosen career or further study.
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In the Major in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, students choose one of three flexible and interdisciplinary concentrations to match their particular career, education, and life goals. These concentrations focus on literary analysis of texts for younger audiences, publishing for children and young adults, and drama/theatre for the young. Within each concentration, students explore different genres and categories of texts for children and young adults. They study current issues, debates, and histories about texts created for younger readers, and envision the future of the field. Through reading, research, discussion, and internships, they consider how children’s books reflect and shape individual lives, different cultures, and society as a whole while developing an appreciation for art in multiple formats. The degree’s scholarly, creative, practical, and reflective curriculum and instruction foster critical thinking, reading, research, writing, and presentation skills that are beneficial in many professional contexts.
Opportunities
While pursuing this major, students have opportunities to engage in scholarly research related to texts for young people, to complete creative, multimodal projects and performances, and to share their scholarly and creative work as part of the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Students are also able to participate in hands-on, experiential learning through academic-service learning, Learning Beyond the Classroom courses, and through internships with publishing companies that specialize in children’s and young adult literature.
Students studying Children’s Literature at EMU pursue various career paths that often require additional training, such as post-baccalaureate teacher certification or a graduate degree in library science. As a result, our alumni are able to apply their knowledge of children’s and young adult literature to a variety of exciting careers in teaching, librarianship, publishing, bookselling, writing, or children’s theatre. Former students have enrolled in graduate programs devoted to the study of fields such as children’s literature, children’s theatre, English, cultural studies, or education, which have led them to careers in secondary education.
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Major Requirements: 36 hours
The coursework below is offered primarily face-to-face/in-person. Coursework may also be offered in hybrid, hyflex, and online (synchronous or asynchronous) modes. In some cases, a course may only be offered entirely online. Click on the courses below to see when and how they are offered.
All students in the major take a core group of courses in children’s and young adult literature and, together with their faculty advisor, construct one of the three concentrations (literary analysis, publishing, children’s literature and drama/theatre for the young) using a series of restricted electives.
Because a number of upper-level courses have prerequisites, students should take lower-level (100-level and 200-level) courses in their chosen concentration before moving on to upper-level courses.
Required Courses: 15 hours
Concentration: 21 hours
Choose one concentration from the following. Students must declare their concentration (Declaration Form).
Literary Analysis
Literary Analysis is for students interested in in-depth literary studies or librarianship: students in this concentration choose mostly CHL and LITR courses.
Publishing
Publishing is for students interested in writing, editing, or marketing children’s books or other roles in the publishing industry. Students in this concentration choose courses in creative writing or the visual arts or courses in marketing, editing, and professional writing.
Introductory Courses: 6 hours
Choose six hours from the following. - Any ARTS, AD2D, AD3D, ADPM, or AD course (100-199) 3 hrs
- CHL 138 Comics [GEKH] 3 hrs
- CHL 209 Global Children’s Literature [GEGA] 3 hrs
- CRTW 201 Introduction to Creative Writing [GEKA] 3 hrs
- PURL 312 Introduction to Public Relations 3 hrs
- WRTG 354W Digital Writing [GEWI] 3 hrs
Intermediate Courses: 6 hours
Choose six hours from the following. - Any AD, AD2D, AD3D, or ADPM course (100-199) 3 hrs
- Any ADGD course (300-399) 3 hrs
- CHL 353 Genders and Sexualities in Literature for Young Readers 3 hrs
- CRTW 300W Gateway to the Creative Writing Program [GEWI] 3 hrs
- MKTG 360 Principles of Marketing 3 hrs
- WRTG 324W Professional Writing and Technical Communication 1 [GEWI] 3 hrs
Advanced Courses: 6 hours
Choose six hours from the following. - Any AD, AD2D, AD3D, ADGD, or ADPM course (300-399) 3 hrs
- CHL 489L4 Internship in Children’s Literature [GELB] 3 hrs
- CTAR 437 Dramatic Literature in Theatre for Young Audiences 3 hrs
- MKTG 369 Advertising 3 hrs
- WRTG 427 Editing and Publishing 3 hrs
- WRTG 444 Writing for the Web 3 hrs
Restricted Elective: 3 hours
Choose three credit hours from the following, or any “CHL” or “CTAR” course listed above, not already completed. - CHL 137 Harry Potter: Literary Allusion, Children’s Literature and Popular Culture [GEKH] 3 hrs
- CHL 279 Special Topics 3 hrs
- CHL 351W World Mythology [GEWI] 3 hrs
- CHL 379 Special Topics 3 hrs
- CHL 450W Children’s Literature: Criticism and Response [GEWI] 3 hrs
- CHL 451W Writing about Controversy in Literature for the Young [GEWI and GELB] 3 hrs
- CHL 456W Jewish Children’s and Adolescent Literature [GEWI] 3 hrs
- CHL 479 Special Topics 3 hrs
- CHL 497 Independent Study 1 hr
- CHL 498 Independent Study 2 hrs
- CHL 499 Independent Study 3 hrs
- CTAR 222 Drama and Play in Human Experience [GEKA] 3 hrs
- CTAR 322 Theatre for Children 3 hrs
- CTAR 326 Drama/Theatre for Persons with Disabilities 2 hrs
- CTAR 329 Performing Theatre for the Young 3 hrs
- CTAR 433 Improvisation 3 hrs
- CTAR 434 Oral Interpretation of Children’s Literature 3 hrs
- CTAR 497 Independent Study 1 hr
- CTAR 498 Independent Study 2 hrs
- CTAR 499 Independent Study 3 hrs
Drama/Theatre for the Young
Children’s Literature and Drama/Theatre for the Young is for students interested in exploring both children’s literature and theatre for younger audiences. Students in this concentration choose a combination of courses from CHL and CTAR. It is recommended that a student pursuing this concentration complete at least 12-15 hours of ”CTAR” courses.
Minor Requirement:
This major requires a minor. See available minors for a list of options, or contact your advisor.
Program Total:
Students must earn a minimum total of 120 credits at the 100-level or above.
Critical Graduation Information
Each undergraduate student will be responsible for fulfilling the requirements (or their equivalents) of the Eastern Michigan University catalog in force at the time of their initial registration at a college or university or a subsequent catalog, including the one in effect at the time of their graduation.
In the event an undergraduate student does not complete the degree requirements within seven years of the date of their original registration at a college or university, the student may be required to have their credits re-evaluated by the academic department(s) of their major/minor in keeping with catalog requirements in force during the year of their graduation.
Minimum requirements for all bachelor’s degrees awarded by Eastern Michigan University
Some majors and minors require more than the minimum in one or more of the areas below; students are urged to consult this catalog for the requirements of their particular programs.
- Earn a minimum total of 120 credit hours at the 100-level and above.
- Courses numbered below 100 are not counted toward this degree requirement.
- At most, eight credit hours of physical education (PEGN) activity courses are counted toward this requirement.
- Meet the requirements of the General Education program (see information below), including completing a Writing Intensive (GEWI) course in the student’s major.
- Earn a minimum of 60 credits from a four-year college or university; courses taken at community colleges cannot be used to meet this requirement (Some formal program-to-program articulation agreements modify this requirement. See specific agreements for details).
- Earn a minimum of 30 credits from courses taken at EMU.
- Complete 10 of the last 30 hours for the degree from courses taken at EMU.
- Have a minimum of 30 unique credit hours in their major and 20 unique credit hours in their minor for a total of at least 50 unique credit hours between them. Some majors that require 50 or more hours themselves do not require a minor. A double major automatically satisfies the need for a minor unless one of the two majors requires a specific minor. Students should check the requirements of the selected major in the undergraduate catalog to see if a minor is required.
- Earn no more than 60 credit hours in one subject area (prefix). Credits over the 60 maximum will not be counted toward the minimum of 120 credits required for a bachelor’s degree.
- Earn the minimum number of credits in 300-level and above courses in each major and minor as specified below - these credits must be earned in distinct courses; that is, no course can be used to fulfill this requirement in more than one major or minor.
- Earn a minimum of 6 credits in 300-level or higher courses at EMU in each minor
- Earn a minimum of 9 credits in 300-level or higher courses at EMU in each major that requires a minor.
- Earn a minimum of 15 credits in 300-level or higher courses at EMU in each major that does not require a minor
- Transfer credit will be awarded for courses taken at colleges and universities that are accredited by one of the recognized regional accrediting bodies only if the courses are college-level (equated to 100-level or above at EMU) and the student earned a “C” (or 2.0 on a 4 point scale) or better. Transfer credit may be awarded on a case-by-case basis for college-level courses in which a “C” (2.0) or better was earned at institutions outside the U.S. or at non-accredited U.S. institutions; individual departments/schools conduct the internal review of such courses within EMU, and additional documentation may be required. Please note: EMU awards only credit for transferred courses; grades are not used to calculate an EMU GPA.
- Earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in courses taken at EMU to graduate. In addition, a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 must be reached in each major and minor. Only courses a student takes at EMU and those applied to their major or minor are used to calculate their major and minor cumulative GPAs. (Note: some programs may require a higher GPA - check with your program advisor.)
General Education Requirements - EMU’s General Education Program requires students to choose from a menu of approved courses in several different areas; do not assume that other courses in the same department or similar names will fulfill these requirements. A detailed description of General Education requirements is available in the General Education section of the catalog.
Students who transferred to EMU may have modified general education requirements based on Michigan Transfer Agreement (MTA) or articulation agreements; consult your academic advisor for additional information.
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