LIT124 Children's Literature: The Oral Tradition (8)
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Drawing on a broad range of examples, and encouraging students to observe and engage in storytelling with children, LIT124 focuses on narrative in the oral tradition - fables, myths and legends, nursery rhymes, poetry, fairy tales, games, drama - and on what happens when such narratives are written down, visualised and adapted to the digital space. Issues addressed include literary and cultural contexts, age-appropriateness and evolving concepts of the child and of a literature specifically for children. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
| Session 1 | | Internal | Albury-Wodonga Campus | | Internal | Bathurst Campus | | Internal | Port Macquarie | | Internal | Wagga Wagga Campus | | Distance | Wagga Wagga Campus |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: LIT124
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | HD/FL | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Assumed Knowledge|
Although not a prerequisite, some experience in observing children will be an advantage.
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to discuss relationships between the oral and literary traditions in narrative for young people
- be able to compare the oral tradition in their own culture with storytelling in at least one other culture
- be able to read or tell a story to children and report on their responses
- be able to discuss some of the significant scholarship in the oral tradition
- be able to speak and write about the oral tradition in accessible and logical English
- be able to demonstrate familiarity with the development of language in the child
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- the language of early childhood
- games, nursery rhymes and poetry
- myths and legends
- folktale and fairy tales
- performance by and for children
- Indigenous Australian storytelling and publishing
- storytelling in a multicultural society
- the oral tradition in the digital age
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
