ENG 229H - Honors Young Adult Literature, Experimental

 
Description
This course invites students to examine young adult literature including genres such as poetry, folktales, myths, realistic and fantastic fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic novels, comic books, drama, film/television, blogs, websites, and games aimed at adolescents. Scientific, journalistic, or autobiographical commentaries on the nature of adolescence and/or young adult literature is also included. A reading knowledge of contemporary, historical, and noteworthy young adult texts and their evaluative review is emphasized.  

This course includes a selection of diverse authors, historical contexts, styles, and genres with emphasis on interpretation and attention to representation. Critical issues in young adult literature are examined and debated.

1. Identify the conventions of young adult literature by writers across various cultures and historical contexts. 
2. Examine historic and contemporary young adult literature, including literature from diverse authors and illustrators. 
3. Analyze principal issues and more recent scholarship in young adult literature, such as censorship, didacticism, feminism, multiculturalism and post modernism. 
4. Devise strategies for introducing adolescences to larger social, political, cultural and historical contexts, necessary for literary interpretation and analysis.  
5. Apply literary terminology appropriately.  
6. Develop written and oral communication skills through research projects, academic and creative writing, discussions, and presentation.

1. Poetry, folktales and myths  
2. Realistic and fantastic fiction  
3. Creative nonfiction  
4. Graphic novels and comic books 
5. Additional genres may include film and television aimed at adolescents, websites, blogs, fanfiction, games, and other non-traditional young adult formats 
6. Literary terminology 
7. Attention to diversity and representation  
8. Literary criticism: critical issues of debate and recent scholarship

• Communication
• Culture Society & Citizenship

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