ED 532 - Literature for Children and Adolescents

3 Credit(s)

Intended for those who teach adolescents, this course will provide the opportunity to experience activities related to the nature, structure, and role of literature written for today’s teenaged population. Of primary concern will be the selection and evaluation of appropriate adolescent literature, methods of motivating and sustaining student interest, genre selection, designing thematic and socially relevant topics, censorship, and the use of multimedia and other forms of instructional technology aimed at this age group with attention to students having special needs.
Requisite(s): ED 507, ED 517, or ED 518 and ED 511.