EDUC 230 Culture in Young Children's Literature This course offers students the opportunity to learn how children's literature, as text and art, has been used to teach youth throughout history; how it has been appropriated by societies; and how children's authors and illustrators have become authors of the culture of their times. The course embodies elements of traditional literary analysis where students will study historical trends, literary and artistic devices, cultural ideologies, and elements of text quality present in multicultural children's literature for audiences aged birth through nine years.