Course details

Name: ENGL - 305

Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2018

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 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. Readings explore a multiplicity of diversities and controversial topics. Authors may include: Margaret Atwood, Andrew Smith, Benjamin Saenz, Louis Sachar, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Philip Pullman, Lois Lowry, Jay Asher, David Levithan, Walter Dean Meyers, Scott Westerfeld, Paolo Bacigalupi, A.S. King, M.T Anderson, Alex London, and Jason Reynolds among others.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

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

Teaching Faculty: Staff English Dept. (staff)

Is course canceled: No