Pictures of Youth - an introduction to children’s visual culture University of York

Overview

The Pictures of Youth - an introduction to children’s visual culture course from University of York provides an introduction to popular types of visual culture for children and young people.

By the end you will gain a deeper understanding of children’s film, television, drama, picture books and comics.

Assessments (and subsequent certificates) are optional and carry a fee, with the exception of people with a York username for whom they are free.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Evaluate how images can be explored critically, drawing from visual analysis and childhood studies
• Interpret visual-verbal interplay in picturebooks
• Explain the imaginative work required by young readers/viewers to construct meaning
• Discuss the traditions of children's visual culture and the plurality of ways in which childhood can be or has been represented
• Reflect on the place of images throughout a child’s development