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ENG-30108 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 08 May 2024

ENG-30108 - Thresholds: Young Adult Fiction
Coordinator: Rebecca Bowler Room: 2.037 Tel: +44 1782 7 33017
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
To introduce students to the ways in which we might read Young Adult Fiction as serious literary works. To contextualise the genre as a relatively new marketed phenomenon, but one with a long literary history. To introduce students to the ways in which crisis (personal, societal, developmental, mental and cultural) has been responded to in literature, as well as how young people in crisis respond to literature.

Intended Learning Outcomes

demonstrate a critical understanding of the history of Young Adult Fiction as both a genre and a marketing term, and to analyse productively how the literary industry responds to markets: 1
analyse the ways Young Adult Fiction responds to crisis (personal, societal, developmental, mental and cultural) and analyse too the effectiveness of that response: 1
demonstrate critical understanding of the changing ways in which society has conceived of 'young adults' through history: 1
demonstrate strong close reading skills and independent research: 1

Study hours

Weeks 1-11 will be a lecture of one hour, and seminar discussion of two hours. In week twelve we will have a one hour lecture to round-up the module.
Independent study hours are toward reading each week's text (57), independent research, preparing for and writing the essay (58), and choosing the final week's text (1).

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Essay weighted 100%
Research Essay
A research essay of 2,500. Students will be given a list of 8-10 questions and may choose one. They will demonstrate close reading skills of one or two of their chosen texts, form their own original argument, and show independent research skills, and an ability to use secondary criticism effectively.

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Last Updated: 08 May 2024