Course details

Name: ENGL - 305

Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will explore the emergence of Young Adult Literature (YAL) as a genre that includes established classics 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 explore portrayals of adolescence as socio-cultural constructs; and examine how 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, Orson Scott Card, Philip Pullman, Lois Lowry, J. K. Rowling, Walter Dean Meyers, Stephanie Meyers, Scott Westerfield, Paolo Bacigalupi, among others.

Last updated on 2011-11-04 By Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)

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

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Other American (TE 1d)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)

Is course canceled: No