ENG 2024 - Young Adult Literature

1 Course Unit(s)
Also listed as EDU 2084.
Despite the ongoing growth and popularity of young adult literature, the love of reading often dissipates after the elementary years. By reading a variety of young adult fiction, students in this class can discover/rediscover the pleasure of reading while gaining new insights into life’s most perplexing issues for young people. Common YA themes and problems addressed in the literature include teenage alienation and isolation, racism, sexism, dysfunctional families and/or relationships, friendship, identity development and change, body image, gun violence and suicide. Current research in young adult literature and concepts such as censorship, bibliotherapy and the reader response theory are also explored.

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