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MEd in Curriculum & Instruction: Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Method of delivery: Blended |
Applications open: October 1, 2025 |
Applications close: February 1, 2026 |
Next start date: September 2026 (tentative) |
What and how we read alongside youth matters. From picture books to blockbuster films, students will learn the skills necessary to critically read texts produced for youth while co-creating a range of pedagogies for teaching in B.C.鈥檚 culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.
Designed for
Practicing K-12 teachers, librarians and students with an interest in children鈥檚 and young adult literature.
Program Structure
- Cohort-based with seven 5-unit courses over six terms (two years)
- Classes meet five to six times per term on Friday evenings (synchronous online*) and Saturdays (SFU Vancouver campus)
- Summer term classes may meet during the week in the daytime
- Designed for working professionals
- Workshops with published authors and illustrators
*Synchronous classes run in real-time, with students and instructors attending together from different locations.
Intake Schedule
Next Start Term
Fall 2026 (subject to receiving sufficient qualified applications)
Program Design
Designed with working professionals in mind, this two-year degree program offers the opportunity to obtain a high-quality master's degree. Our cohort-based model allows students to work through the program and coursework together (18-24 students).
Working with a cohesive and interdisciplinary faculty team, students will benefit from a rich curriculum and experience that will balance theoretical trends in the study of children鈥檚 and young adult literature with hands on teaching strategies. The program was designed to provide opportunities for students to:
- understand children鈥檚 and young adult literature as a genre with its own traditions and histories;
- analyze compositional elements of visual images and how graphic narratives like picturebooks, comics, cartoons, and film communicate;
- understand the relationships between texts for youth and shifting cultural constructions of 鈥渃hildhood鈥 and 鈥渁dolescence鈥 and what kinds of stories adults believe youth need and/or should be shielded from;
- develop knowledge about BIPOC children鈥檚 and YA authors and illustrators and how to select and teach engaging culturally responsive texts in B.C.鈥檚 culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms;
- demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of Indigenous children鈥檚 and YA literature and develop strategies for teaching First People鈥檚 literature, especially to meet the new requirement (beginning 2023-24) set out by the B.C. Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the First Nations Education Steering Committee, that secondary students complete Indigenous-focused coursework before graduation.
Additionally, students will learn directly from authors/illustrators to understand the craft of creating narratives for youth and for communicating that creative process to young people via 1-day workshops with authors and illustrators.
Courses
Students complete:
EDUC 848-5 IDEAS AND ISSUES IN AESTHETIC EDUCATION
This first course provides a survey of children鈥檚 literature (K-grade 8). Students will understand children's literature as a genre with its own tradition and history; analyze compositional elements of visual images and how graphic narratives like picturebooks, comics, cartoons, and film communicate; understand the relationships between texts for youth and shifting cultural constructions of "childhood" and "adolescence".
EDUC 820-5 CURRENT ISSUES IN CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY
TBD
832-5 The Art and Discipline of Writing and Teaching
This course provides an in-depth study of Indigenous children鈥檚 literature and pedagogies. It is taught by Dr. Sara Davidson a Haida literacy scholar and published picture book author for young readers.
Educ 830-5 Implementation of Educational 尤物视频
TBD
EDUC 816-5 DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES FOR DIVERSE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
This course focuses on environmental justice within and ecologies of children鈥檚 and young adult literature.
EDUC 823-5 CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN AN INDIVIDUAL TEACHING SPECIALTY
TBD
EDUC 883-5 MED COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
The examination is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Program courses and order of delivery subject to change.
Vancouver
Our Vancouver campus transformed the landscape of urban education in downtown Vancouver. The campus comprises multiple facilities clustered in the core of one of the world鈥檚 most liveable cities.
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Where can this program take you? The world is changing rapidly and so is the full range of career and academic opportunities that await.
Occupations
- Teachers
- Teacher-librarians
Further Studies
- Graduates of this program may be interested in pursuing an Educational Leadership EdD (offerings and locations vary).
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November 21, 2023
November 21, 2023
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