edu4fya fiction for young adults
FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
EDU4FYA
2015
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Students in this unit will analyse factors affecting the emergence and development of fiction for young adults as a distinctive literature category over the last twenty years. Students will also focus on recent trends in this field, including the development of a range of critical perspectives for interpreting themes, issues and responses to this literature by adults and adolescents. This is a disciline subject that focuses on students' personal knowledge and consideration of the field of Young Adult literature, rather than a curriculum one that explores how to work with students and texts. Thus personal awareness and appreciation of young adult literature as a social and aesthetic experience is the focus, rather than specific techniques for classroom activity. Students will examine the relationship between a text, the social and literary context of its creation, and the perspectives that a reader may bring, to the making of meaning in that text. Through learning tasks undertaken in tutorials, and the assessment tasks of interactive review, academic essay and examination, students' abilities to analyse and reflect on texts and theories, and their skills as a critical reader and as a constructive team member, will be developed.
SchoolSchool of Education
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorDavid Beagley
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites EDU2GCL
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjectsN/A
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | N/A | Recommended | N/A | N/A |
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Identify the features that define Young Adult literature and distinguish it from both children's and adult literature.
- Activities:
- Students will submit a review of a Young Adult text and post it on the subject's LMS discussion board for commentary from the other students in the class - this review will then be rewritten in the light of that commentary. Students will prepare and present a formal academic essay from a set of questions based on the texts introduced in class, and sit an examination requiring responses to similar set questions.
02. Critique specific texts in terms of theoretical perspectives, social and historical contexts, and styles used by particular authors/illustrators.
- Activities:
- Students will submit a review of a Young Adult text and post it on the subject's LMS discussion board for commentary from the other students in the class - this review will then be rewritten in the light of that commentary. Students will prepare and present a formal academic essay from a set of questions based on the texts introduced in class, and sit an examination requiring responses to similar set questions.
03. Identify theoretical perspectives, social and historical contexts, and styles used by particular authors/illustrators in unfamiliar texts.
- Activities:
- Students will prepare and present a formal academic essay from a set of questions based on the texts introduced in class, and sit an examination requiring responses to similar set questions.
Subject options
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Bendigo, 2015, Semester 2, Blended
Overview
Online enrolmentYes
Maximum enrolment sizeN/A
Enrolment information
Subject Instance Co-ordinatorDavid Beagley
Class requirements
TutorialWeek: 31 - 43
One 1.0 hours tutorial per week on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.
"Plus online learning"
LectureWeek: 31 - 43
Two 1.0 hours lecture per week on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.
Assessments
| Assessment element | Comments | % | ILO* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text Review - 1st submission | 10 | 01, 02 | |
| Text Review - 2nd submission and commentary | 20 | 01, 02 | |
| Essay | 30 | 01, 02, 03 | |
| Examination | 40 | 01, 02, 03 |