Teaching Environmental Literacy Through Picture-books: Reading, Analysis, and Design
(one graduate credit | fully asynchronous | July 1–31)

Together, we’ll examine how narrative, informational, poetic, and hybrid picture-books construct environmental knowledge and position readers in relation to the natural world and one another. Participants will engage in close analysis of contemporary texts while exploring issues of representation, genre, environmental justice, and ecological belonging.

Course activities include:

• close analysis of picture-books and visual spreads;
• discussion of genre, backmatter, and representation;
• a small-scale content analysis inspired by research on environmental informational texts; and
• the creation of a curated environmental text set for classroom or community use.

A few of the texts we’ll explore include:

• American Beach
• Harlem Grown
• Hello, Earth!
• I Know the Land, and the Land Knows Me

The course is designed to be flexible and manageable for summer schedules while still offering meaningful graduate-level inquiry and discussion.

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