英语语言文学文学硕士-儿童和青年成人文学

儿童和青年成人文学课程提供了研究儿童和青年成人的文本如何与读者以及广泛的文学研究领域交流的机会。学生探索什么使儿童和青年成人文学成为说某些话的正确形式，以及这些文本在塑造个人和文化思维方面可能具有什么力量和影响力。该课程的学生将获得专业化的强化体验，可以为博士学习或大专课程的学习做好准备，并通过补充当前的文学知识和方法来增强其K-12教学证书，并丰富其思维和写作技巧（以及一生对阅读的热爱），主要针对年轻读者及其更广泛的文学和文化背景探索文学的体裁和格式。
The children's and young adult literature program offers the opportunity to study how texts for children and young adults speak to the reader and to the broader field of literary studies. Students explore what makes children's and young adult literature the right form to say certain things, and what power and influence such texts might have to shape individual and cultural thinking.<br><br>Students in the program get a specialized, intensive experience that can prepare them for doctoral level studies or to teach at the post-secondary level, enhance their K-12 teaching certificate by supplementing it with current literary knowledge and approaches and enrich thinking and writing skills (as well as a lifelong love of reading) through focused explorations of the genres and formats of literature for young readers and their broader literary and cultural contexts.