ENGL3665
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course focuses on popular, speculative, and realist young adult (YA) literature and other YA texts that engage with and shift dominant narratives of the world. In particular, we will examine how human relationships with their environment are storied in YA genres. Students will consider how positive and negative images of societies are constructed in the literature, and will examine representations of power and authority and rebellion against these. Students will learn how to identify, engage with, and contribute to contemporary discussions about subjectivity, agency and authority.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Online
- Semester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Identify and explain literary movements in the representation of YA voices;
2. Analyse in both formal and informal academic writing, different representations of YA literature;
3. Evaluate a range of theoretical issues relating to YA texts;
4. Interpret the relationships between different historical, socio-economic and cultural contexts in YA literature, including Aboriginal ways of knowing;
5. Synthesise YA scholarship to create and apply literary approaches to YA literature.
Content
Through reading and examining different forms of young adult texts, students will engage with national and global concerns about the environment, feminism, depictions of heroism, and questions regarding power and repression. The course will include examples of stories from young adult genres drawing on mythical and historical as well as contemporary sources.
Assumed knowledge
20 units of English and Writing courses at 1000 level
Assessment items
Journal: Journals
Presentation: Presentation - Podcast
Written Assignment: Reflection
Essay: Analytic essay
Contact hours
Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Seminar-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Semester 2 - 2024 - Online
Seminar-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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