Course details

Name: ENGL - 305

Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2018

Credits: 3

Description:
Students will read a broad representation of Young Adult (YA) texts and concomitant critical essays. Students 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 texts to explore portrayals of adolescence as sociocultural constructs; and examine how the literature of and about young adulthood reflects, responds to or reacts against those paradigms. Students will explore the issues surrounding what youths read, the books taught in our nation’s schools, the concepts these texts espouse to their intended audiences and what such works reveal about the sociocultural contexts within which they were produced.

Readings may include authors such as: John Green, Rick Riordan, Louis Sachar, Lois Lowry, Mark Twain, Jay Asher, A.S. King, Laurie Halse Anderson, Walter Dean Meyers, Scott Westerfield, Paolo Bacigalupi, Cal Armistead, Andrew Smith, David Lubar, Jerry Spinelli, Philip Beard, Susan Vaught, Brian Falkner, David Levithan, Jason Reynolds, Yvonne Ventresca, Alex London, John Corey Whaley, Mark Hadden and Emil Ostrovski, among others.

Last updated on 2017-10-16 By Nicosia James (nicosiaj)

Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 8:30 am To 9:45 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)

Is course canceled: No