Course details

Name: ENGL - 305

Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will explore the emergence of Young Adult Literature (YAL) including established classics as well as contemporary fiction. Additionally, this course will examine the historical and cultural contexts surrounding its development; discuss these works through multiple lenses; study relevant criticism; apply literary theory to the texts to explore portrayals of adolescence as a sociocultural construct; and examine how the literature of and about young adulthood reflects, responds to or reacts against those paradigms. Readings may include authors such as: John Green, Rick Riordan, Louis Sachar, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Philip Pullman, Lois Lowry, Veronica Roth, Jay Asher, Walter Dean Meyers, Scott Westerfeld, and Paolo Bacigalupi, among others.

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