PhD Specialization in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Course of Study

Required / Where Does It Count / When Taught
TPTE 604: Trans-Departmental Seminar I (1) / Core Requirement / Fall, first year of program
TPTE 640: Theoretical Analysis and Theory Construction (3) / Research / Fall, first year of program
TPTE 605: Trans-Departmental Seminar II (1) / Core Requirement / Spring, second year of program
TPTE 617: Advanced Studies in Education (3) / Core Requirement / Fall/Spring
REED 603: Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy (3) / Core Requirement
(Seminar in Primary Concentration) / Spring, even-numbered years
Counts as 1 of 3 required seminars
ENED 601: Advanced Seminar in English Education / Concentration/Specialization / Spring
Counts as 1 of 3 required seminars
3rd seminar (Reading Education) / Concentration/Specialization
ENG 460: Technical Editing OR 462: Writing for Publication / Core Requirement / 460 offered every semester
Status of 462 unclear
ENG 650: Studies/English Romanticism (“Literature and the Child”) / Concentration/Specialization / Fall
ENED 509: Young Adult Literature in the Secondary School / Concentration/Specialization / Spring/First Summer

Potential Research Courses

**CFS 660: Observation Methods

**CFS 650: Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Human Sciences

CSE 607: Advanced Seminar: Educational Studies

**EDPY 559: Intro to Qualitative Research in Education

**EDPY 659: Advanced Qualitative Research in Education

**EDPY 577: Statistics in Applied Fields

EDPY 631: Discourse Analysis

EDPY 633: Discursive Psychology

**EDPY 583: Survey Research

SOCI 640: Critical Discourse Analysis

**STAT 531: Survey/Statistical Methods I

ENG 682: Research Methods

INSC 504: Research Methods for Informational Professionals

Certificates available in Evaluation, Statistics & Measurement (ESM) and Qualitative Research in Education

Potential Concentration/Specialization Courses

Language and Literacy Development

EDDE 520: Teaching Reading, Writing and Reasoning to Deaf/Hard of Hearing

ELED 528: Language Arts

ENG 471: Sociolinguistics

ENG 476: Second Language Acquisition

ENG 495: Intro to Rhetoric/Composition

ENED 592: Linguistics in the English Classroom

REED 529: Emergent Literacy

REED 530: Reading in the Elementary School

REED 540: Struggling Adolescent Readers

WLEL 586: Foundations of Bilingual Education: Language, Culture, and Politics (spring)

Language and Literacy Assessment

REED 537: Classroom Diagnosis and Correction

REED 539: Practicum in Remediation of Reading Difficulties

WLEL 466: ESL Assessment and Evaluation

Language and Literature Pedagogy (Materials and Methods, (Literacy) Texts and Materials)

ENG 455: Persuasive Writing

ENG 460: Technical Editing

ENG 462: Writing for Publication

ENG 477: Pedagogical Grammar for ESL Teachers

ENG 575: Issues: Second Language for Rhetoric & Composition (Teaching Second Language Writing)

ENED 459: Secondary English Methods

ENG 505: Composition Pedagogy

ENED 508: Teaching Composition in the Secondary School

ENED 509: Teaching Young Adult Literature in the Secondary School

REED 519: Transacting with Literature

REED 534: Special Topics (Mulitiliteracies and Learning)

WLEL 476: Teaching English as a Second Language

WLEL 489: Content-Based ESL Methods

Doctoral Seminars

ELED 651: Advanced Studies in Elementary Education Language Arts

REED 602: Variable (past topics: Reading Disabilities, Literacy Teacher Education, Federal Education Policy: Closing the Reading Gap)

REED 603: Theoretical Models & Processes

REED 605: Organizing Reading Programs

WLEL 678: Advanced Studies in English as a Second Language (fall)

WLEL 686: Foundations of Bilingual Education: Language, Culture, and Politics (spring)

Potential Cognate Courses (see SIS/CCI Cognate menu below; other cognates possible)

  • INSC 571 – Resources and Services for Children (children’s lit, taught in spring only)
  • Critical survey of books and related materials for children, development of genres. Evaluation, selection, and utilization for school and public libraries.
  • INSC 572 – Resources and Services for Young Adults (YA lit, every summer)
  • Critical survey of books and related materials for young adults; personal, vocational, and recreational needs and interests. Evaluation, selection, and utilization for school and public libraries.
  • INSC 573 – Programming for Children and Young Adults (fall only)
  • Philosophy and objectives of public and school library services for children and young adults. Reading, listening, and viewing guidance for individuals and groups. Program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Prereq: 571 or 572
  • INSC 577 – Picturebooks Across the Curriculum (every other summer)
  • Provides guidance for selecting and using quality picture books, wordless books, graphic novels and other media for teachers and librarians. Will focus on cross-curricular with an emphasis on using these materials in traditional and nontraditional ways to enhance student learning for grades K-12.
  • INSC 575 – Valuing Diversity: International and Intercultural Resources for Youth (every other summer)
  • Examines texts and materials for youth that reflect the contemporary settings and lives of young people from all over the world. This course will review the scholarship of literature and film to determine how to recognize stereotypes; how to understand publishing worlds; and how to recognize universal themes that transcend ethnicity, religion, gender, class, and nationhood.
  • INSC 576 – Storytelling in Libraries and Classrooms (every other spring)
  • Examines the history of those who influenced the programming and styles of storytelling. Additionally, the course will offer techniques and sources for selecting, preparing and telling stories to library and classroom audience.
  • INSC 590 NF – Nonfiction for Youth (every other spring)
  • Critical survey of nonfiction/informational texts for children and young adults, with an emphasis on evaluation, selection, and utilization for school and public libraries.

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