Course Description: Young Adult LIterature is a 3-hour graduate level course designed to increase interest in and knowledge of young adult literature--not just the canon, but newer forms as well. Students in this course will read books written specifically for the adolescent, as well as books that transcend any sort of audience classification. The intent is to accrue first and second hand knowledge of these texts for the purpose of making informed classroom selections as well as appropriate recommendations to individual readers.
Course Objectives
Students in this course will learn to:
- Survey books written for and read by adolescents in a variety of genres and accrue primary and secondary knowledge about these books.
- Develop skill in evaluating, discussing and writing about young adult literature.
- Learn how to help adolescents discover and develop their own reading interests.
- Design lesson plans that employ a variety of instructional strategies to serve a range of student learning objectives.
- Write a rationale for or against teaching a controversial book.
- Become acquainted with recent academic writing on young adult literature.
Required Textbooks
Neilsen and Donelson (2008, 8th edition) Literature for Today's Young Adults. New York: Pearson
Required Young Adult Literature: TBA
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Student Requirements:
- UVA E-mail account. You will be assigned a UVA email account upon registration and payment of fees
- Internet Connection (High-speed internet works best.)
- Microsoft Office Word 96 or higher (All assignments and tests must be sent in this format.)
- Adobe Acrobat Reade
