Terrifying: Adolescence, Real and Imagined

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This course explores the concept of “choice” in adolescence, and where adolescence and society cross, clash, and mesh, primarily focused around the subjects of gender and sexuality. We will explore media of the long adolescence through two-and-a-half centuries: prose narrative to graphic novel to television and TikTok and more, from Austen to Vuong, Kant to Kaling to Kobabe, J. Swift to T. Swift (well, probably not Jonathan Swift, but it felt clever).