Literature for Children and Youth

Syllabus

1.  Organizational instructions;

2.  Theory of Literature for Children and Youth;

3.  Literature for children and youth in relation to didactics and psychology;

4.  The issue of genres: fairy tales (Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm vs. Otfried Preußler);

5.  The issue of genres: adventure novels (Joachim Heinrich Campe, Ludwig Tieck, David Wyss; Karl May);

6.  The issue of genres: novels of Erich Kästner vs. novels of Christiane Nöstlinger vs. novesls of Andreas Steinhöfel;

7.  The issue of genres: fantasy (Michael Ende);

8.  –

9. The issue of genres: Problem oriented Literature (Peter Härtling, Gudrun Pausewang);

10.The issue of genres: Literature for young adult (Christiane F. vs. Wolfgang Herrndorf);

11.The issue of genres: World War II in Literature for Children and Youth (Mirjam Pressler);

12. Conclusion, course evaluation

Annotation

Term: summer 0/2

Examination: Exam

Credits: 6

Volume of tuition: 26 hours

Teaching und Communikation Language: German

Annotation: The aim of the course is to introduce the problems of teaching literature within a foreign language subject. The students will be shown the importance of literature for creating social-cultural and intercultural skills. Teaching literature will be put into context with the system of literature (with both literary-historic and literary-theoretic aspects) and literary communication (taking place at/outside school). As far as the contents is concerned, the course may be divided into following topics: Literature lessons as a part of teaching foreign languages. Literary text as a subunit of the system of literature and as an independent unit of the social-cultural system. Activity-directed text analysis. Theory of literature and literary history in teaching foreign languages.