ENG 2024 - Literature for Young Adults

1 Course Unit(s)
Also listed as EDU 2084.
For many young people, the love of reading dissipates after the elementary years. By exploring the genre of adolescent literature and its body of scholarship, students can discover new pleasures in reading as well as greater understanding of the most perplexing and relevant issues for young people today. Students in this course will read numerous novels written for a young adult audience, and they will respond to them in writing, discussion and projects. In addition to the typical coming of age and identity themes, common topics or issues in these novels include alienation, LGBTQAI rights, racism, homophobia, dysfunctional families, sexual abuse and assault, intersectionality, body image, friendship, first love, teenage pregnancy, disabilities, gun violence, and suicide. Additional topics such as censorship, bibliotherapy and reader response theory will be explored as well.

General Education Requirement(s): Upper-level Liberal Arts
Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Pre/Corequisite(s): None