ENGL 625 - Advanced Young Adult Literature in a Digital Age

Credits: (3)

Prerequisites: None
This course investigates the nature of online and e-reader-based materials targeted explicitly at young adults, including e-book versions of traditional young adult selections. In addition, materials often at odds with mainstream cultural values of literary merit, including such non-traditional materials as are found in role-playing environments, social media sites, e-publishing and self-publishing, and graphic novel genres will be considered. Students will develop Universal Design for Learning (UDL)-based lessons and larger, cohesive plans involving reading materials from a variety of the domains noted above.