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KAA / MDELI
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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MDELI
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Children´s Literature
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
6
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / 34
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KAA/DELIT
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The objective of the course is to introduce British and American children's literature. The course is aimed especially at future teachers of English to make them acquainted with the kinds of text appropriate for the age group they will eventually teach. The lectures focus on the history of children's literature, the changing concept of childhood, genres of children's literature. The seminars focus on particular texts of children's literature and the ways of utilizing them in ELT classrooms.
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Requirements on student
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Seminar attendance is compulsory. Students are required to prepare a seminar presentation (will be specified), do their readings and complete tasks presented in the Moodle.
exam
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Content
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The concept of childhood and readings for children.
Development of children's literature.
Genres of children's literature.
Poetry, nursery rhymes, limericks, riddles.
Fables, legends, folk tales.
The fairy tale.
Fantasy.
Adventure stories, tall tale, dime novels.
Domestic tale.
Picture books.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Zipes, Jack. Fairy tales and the art of subversion.
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Basic:
Deborah Cogan Thacker, Jean Webb. Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism. Routledge, 2002.
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Basic:
RUSSELL, David L. Literature for children: a short introduction. Eighth edition. Boston : Pearson Education. 2015.
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Recommended:
MacLeod, Anne Scott. American childhood : essays on children´s literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8203-1551-6.
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Recommended:
Hunt, Peter. An introduction to children's literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-289243-6.
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Recommended:
McCulloch, Fiona. Children's literature in context. London: Continuum, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84706-487-5.
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Recommended:
Bubíková, Šárka . Literary childhoods : growing up in British and American literature. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart :, 2008. ISBN 978-80-86818-67-2.
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Recommended:
Gupta, Suman. Re-reading Harry Potter. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-21958-8.
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Recommended:
Rudd, David, . The Routledge companion to children's literature. London: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-47271-5.
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Recommended:
Kümmerling-Meibauer. The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks. Routledge. 2018.
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Recommended:
Bubíková, Šárka. Úvod do studia dětství v americké literatuře. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7395-214-3.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will gain theoretical knowledge on the history, theory, genres and reception of literary production targeted at children and youth, and will deepen their ability of literary analysis and the application of theoretical concepts on particular texts. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Skills training
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Assessment methods |
- Written examination
- Work-related product analysis
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