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2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HUM 251-01 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature

4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 251-01 . In 2018, “Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature” will focus on American fantasy literature for children and teens, from A Wrinkle in Time and The Phantom Tollbooth to 21st-century successors.  Particular attention will be paid to the hero’s journey and its relation to identity formation in these popular novels for young readers. Does the quest change when gender, ethnic, cultural, and sexual identities complicate the hero’s “call to adventure” and, if so, to what effect—for the child reader, society, and the genre?

Prerequisite: A course in English or another course in literature.
Instructor: Herold