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2013-2014 Academic Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDU 215 - Reading and Writing Youth Culture

4 credits (Spring)
This course examines contrasts in the construction of adolescence in texts written about, for, and by adolescents. We will pay particular attention to how historical and current cultural constructions of adolescence reinscribe or challenge mainstream conceptions of adolescents as members of social-political groups (as raced, classed, and gendered, for example). We will focus on one site of youth culture, the school, to examine how various school practices (such as athletics, school dances, clubs, pedagogical approaches) reinforce or challenge dominant notions of adolescence. Eight hours of field experience in K-12 public school setting.

Prerequisite: EDU 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Ketter