Course details

Name: ENGL - 305

Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
This course explores the emergence of Young Adult Literature and 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; 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: Benjamin Alire Saenz, Louis Sachar, Neil Gaiman, Lois Lowry, Walter Dean Myers, Scott Westerfeld, Alex London, Paolo Bacigalupi, Amy Sarig King, Neal Shusterman, and Jason Reynolds, among others.

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 12:45 pm To 2:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)

Is course canceled: No