FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
EDU4FYA
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Students will analyse factors affecting the emergence and development of fiction for young adults as a distinctive literature category. 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 discipline 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 classroom teaching. 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 activities undertaken in tutorials, and assessment tasks of interactive review, academic essay and examination, a student's ability to analyse and reflect on texts and theories, and skill as a critical reader and as a constructive team member, will be developed.
SchoolSchool of Education
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorDebra Edwards
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites EDU2GCL, or approved by the subject co-ordinator
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjectsN/A
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | various | Recommended | various | various |
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.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills (Writing,Cultural Literacy)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills (Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
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.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills (Writing,Cultural Literacy)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills (Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
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.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Literacies and Communication Skills (Writing,Cultural Literacy)
- Literacies and Communication Skills (Writing,Cultural Literacy)
- Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills (Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)
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