Course details

Name: ENGL - 305

Title: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2024

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 (Including book banning and censorship); 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, Ellen Hopkins, Paolo Bacigalupi, Amy Sarig King, Neal Shusterman, and Jason Reynolds, among others.

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 3:45 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia Laura (nicosiala)

Is course canceled: No