Adolescent Literature

This course provides and introduction to adolescent literature, its themes, theories, and potential teaching approaches. This course engages seminar participants in sophisticated thought regarding the selection and presentation of adolescent literature. Seminar participants will present an adolescent literary text to the class, along with appropriate applied theory. Participants will also write a seminar-length paper concerning two or more adolescent literary texts, keep an online reading and learning journal, comment on the written thoughts of peers, and engage in peer review on one another's seminar papers.