EDUC 501 - Young Adult Literature

3 Credits

Introduces students to reader response, socio-cultural, and New Historicist lenses for making meaning of a variety of traditional and emerging texts from the amorphous body of American literature written specifically for young adults. As participants examine classic and contemporary young adult texts, they construct blogs, wikis, and a literary analysis essay with hyper-textual links to articulate a philosophy for the inclusion of young adult literary texts in the secondary school curriculum, both individually and in tandem with canonical texts. Spring. (Undergraduate cognate: EDUC 131).

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