ENGL 215 — Writing Children's Literature
Introduces skills for writing and analyzing children’s literature. Students will survey the different formats and genres of books created for children from birth through young adult; explore current topics related to writing, publishing, and accessing children’s literature; and analyze and practice the skills of crafting a strong story concept, creating multidimensional characters, constructing the plot of a novel, setting the scene, and identifying their unique approach(es) to writing. While students will select, read, and critique a variety of recently published works written for children aged zero to seventeen, the creative writing practice will focus on narrative fiction for children aged eight through seventeen.