ENGL 4074: Topics in Children's/YA Literature, Culture, and/or Media: Digital Narratives for Young People
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Study of works for children and/or young adults such as literature and/or other media, including film, television, digital narratives, games, and/or comics. Section information text: In this course, we’ll examine the numerous ways in which texts can travel from the analog "real" world to the digital one and back again... and how children’s and YA literature can serve as a guidebook for such a journey. We will also consider the ethical, social, and artistic ramifications of a digital universe that now regularly includes "AI" generated material. Expect to read, write, discuss, and present on all kinds of narratives ranging from Romeo and Juliet, Ivanhoe, Alice in Wonderland, The Hunger Games, the Percy Jackson series, and films like The Matrix (1999) to social media story-telling, reality tv, video games, discographies by popular musical artists, web-comics, and fan fiction via all types of interfaces (i.e. dead-tree books as well as your computer/television/phone screens), while learning to pitch your own concepts for creative projects that digitally adapt favorite/significant print texts from your own childhood and adolescence for new audiences to discover and enjoy. For graduate students, fulfills children’s literature requirement for children’s literature concentration; fulfills literature course requirement for applied linguistics, creative writing, rhetoric/composition, and literature concentrations
Average GPA: 3.33
Grade distribution records: 519 students across 19 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A | 295 | 56.8% |
| B | 119 | 22.9% |
| C | 35 | 6.7% |
| D | 14 | 2.7% |
| F | 24 | 4.6% |
| W | 24 | 4.6% |
Based on 519 student grade records across 19 terms and 8 professors.
Instructors
- Balaka Basu 185 students, Average GPA 3.65
- Paula Connolly 158 students, Average GPA 3.05
- Sarah Minslow 43 students, Average GPA 3.24
- Julianna Avila 38 students, Average GPA 3.14
- Mark West 37 students, Average GPA 3.51
- Monica Belus 24 students, Average GPA 2.88
- Elizabeth Gargano 12 students, Average GPA 3.25
- Maya Socolovsky 10 students, Average GPA 3.00