Course details
Name: ENGL - 305
Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Section: 01
Semester: Spring - 2021
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 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, Louis Sachar, Lois Lowry, Mark Twain, Jay Asher, A.S. King, Laurie Halse Anderson, Walter Dean Meyers, 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.
As of this writing, the course will take place at least partially in person, on campus.
Last updated on 2020-09-12 By
Nicosia James (nicosiaj)
Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 9:15 am To 9:30 am
Graduation requirements:
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Other American (TE 1d)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- Class Issues (3d)
Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)
Is course canceled: No