Critical Approaches to Children's and Young Adult Literature

An introduction to the critical study of children's and young adult literature. It focuses on the ways the genre conceptualizes childhood and adolescence, especially in relation to other social categories such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexuality. Primary texts that will be examined include picture books, early readers, middle-grade and young adult novels, and poetry for children and adolescents, and graphic novels for children and adolescents. For English majors and minors, this is designated as a Literature course and Genre/Theme course.

Fall, Spring

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