Adolescent Literature

Catalog description

The course will expose students to the large variety of quality adolescent literature available for reading and study in middle and high school classes. It will also examine the relevance of a variety of issues to the reading and teaching of adolescent literature, among them: reader response; theory and practice; multi-culturalism; literacy; the relation of adolescent literature to 'classic' literature the role of adolescent literature in interdisciplinary studies; adolescent literature as an incentive to extracurricular reading.