Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course will concentrate on contemporary literature written for children and young adults, with emphasis upon three important genres : folktales, adolescent novel, and picturebooks. Several more general aspects will be examined: recent history, the present market of children literature, large series of books under a single imprint, and censorship.
Tales are the main format for contemporary children's literature, and this genre will be examined from several angles: the importance of oral tradition, the late appearance of a specialisation for a children readership, parodies, and heavily illustrated adaptations.
Novels for young adults will be examined from several points of view: origins, foreign influences, formal or stylistic points of distinction, taboos and censorship, education novels, young adult's fantasy literature, etc.
Picturebook will be analysed in detail, in order to show students the main properties of this form. With a special focus on text/pictures relations, we will examine ancient and contemporary picturebooks. We will also take a look at the very rich contribution of Belgian creators in this area.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course is intended primarily for students from the departments of Romance Languages and Literature, Modern Languages and Literature, and Communication Arts and Sciences. Students will get an idea of the way the publishing industry works, situated as it is, at the intersection of literature, graphic arts, and general positions concerning the teaching of reading. Particular attention will be given to opening up international perspectives, and to teaching students to use specialised resources and instruments for research (books, journals, institutions and websites that deserve to be taken as reference points).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course is open to students who have passed at least their first year in a Bachelor's programme of the Faculty.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Class meetings in the second quadrimester will last for two hours each.
Simultaneously, the students could have to attend to 3 chapters in the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) "Il était une fois la littérature jeunesse" , by ULiège-IFRES.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
English text not available.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
Marks will be based on an individual research project (30%), an oral examination on the obligatory readings (10%), on the material of the course (+ the chapters choosen in the MOOC) (50%) and on the individual project (10%).
The project will concern a topic that has been chosen by mutual agreement with the instructor prior to Easter vacation. It will extend to 7000-8000 characters of text written by the student, a short bibliography, and any necessary appendices. It must be submitted as a paper copy (composed using Microsoft Word or Open Office) and also e-mailed as an attachment no later than 14 days before the date of the examination.
Note: In case of high numbers of students (over 30) a written exam may replace the above mentioned procedure.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Daniel Delbrassine
E-mail: daniel.delbrassine@uliege.be