Course Description
Adolescent literature and its selection and use in the middle
school and high school to promote engagement with literature.
Athena Title
Adolescent and Young Adult Lit
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 4410E
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Corequisite
LLED 4400/6400 and (LLED 4450/6450 or LLED 4450E/6450E) and LLED 4030
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to identify a large body of literature in various genres appropriate for adolescents.
- Students will be able to examine in depth exceptional authors who write for adolescents.
- Students will be able to identify developmentally appropriate strategies through which adolescents may experience literature.
- Students will be able to explore themes and issues related to diversity in adolescent literature.
- Students will be able to develop guidelines for dealing with censorship issues in adolescent literature.
- Students will evaluate the historical development and cultural significance of YA literature in relation to adolescence, identity, and social change.
- Students will design instructional strategies that integrate YA literature into middle and high school classrooms to foster student engagement, critical thinking, and literacy growth.
- Students will develop assessments that measure student understanding of YA texts through multiple modalities (e.g., writing, discussion, creative projects, multimodal responses).
Topical Outline
- The evolution of adolescent literature: An overview
- Literature and adolescent readers: Developmental perspectives
- Engagement with literature: Response processes through short fiction
- The adolescent novel since 1965: Major and minor authors
- Fantasy and science fiction for adolescents
- Poetry and drama for adolescents
- Nonfiction for adolescents
- Gender and culture in adolescent literature
- Censorship and adolescent literature
