ENGL-317 Young Adult Literature

ENGL-317-01 Young Adult Literature

Faculty:

Fisher, Leona

Young Adult Fiction (undergraduate)
Leona Fisher
Spring 2010

Arguably one of the liveliest genres to appear in the last thirty years, young adult (YA) or adolescent fiction is innovative, far-ranging, and controversial. Both texts written for adolescents (such as the later Harry Potters and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight), who are usually defined as 12-15 years of age, and those appropriated by them (such as The Lovely Bones and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime) will be examined, as will films that have been made from those texts (such as Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak and the film of the same name). Students will attend required film viewings; do in-class, spontaneous writing; write several short essays; take a mid-term examination; and write an original research paper or creative short story with commentary as a final project.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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