Course details

Name: ENGL - 305

Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will explore the emergence of Young Adult Literature (YAL) as a genre that includes establishedclassics as well as contemporary fiction. Additionally, this course will examine the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the genre’s development; discuss these works through multiple lenses; study relevant criticism; apply literary theory to the textsto explore portrayals of adolescence as socio-cultural constructs; and examinehow the literature of and about young adulthood reflects, responds to or reacts against those paradigms. Readings may include authors such as: Rick Riordan, Louis Sachar, Neil Gaiman, OrsonScott Card, Philip Pullman, Lois Lowry, J. K. Rowling, Walter Dean Meyers, Scott Westerfield among others.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Other American (TE 1d)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)

Is course canceled: No