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Sherri Morgan Macdonald
LIS 566
Seattle Campus
An overview of materials reflecting adolescents' interest in media and addressing their educational, cultural, and recreational needs. Students evaluate print literature, electronic ad other non-print media for young adults. Content also designed to assist adult caregivers of adolescents. Prerequisite: LIS 500, LIS 510, and LIS 520 or permission of instructor.
Class description
• An overview of materials reflecting adolescents’ interest in media and addressing their educational, cultural, recreational needs. • Students evaluate print literature, electronic, and other non-print media for young adults. • Content also designed to assist adult caregivers of adolescents. • Prerequisites: LIS 510 and LIS 520 or permission from instructor.
Student learning goals
Students will demonstrate comprehension of the educational, cultural, and recreational needs of young adults as they apply to library materials.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of YA genres, formats, sources of evaluation tools, and lists of critically-acclaimed titles.
Students will demonstrate their ability to write publication-quality annotations and reviews.
Students will demonstrate their ability to present engaging booktalks, not only for books but for non-book formats, as well.
Students will demonstrate their ability to synthesize what they have learned in the course by creating and presenting a portfolio of their coursework and a ready-to-use thematic YA program, incorporating multiple formats, and designed to increase use of a library’s YA materials.
General method of instruction
Discussion, presentation, and portfolio
Recommended preparation
Prerequisites: LIS 510 and LIS 520 or permission from instructor.
Class assignments and grading
Assignments: annotations/reviews, booktalks, discussions, portfolios
Grades will be assigned based on rubrics which are consistent with university and Information School policies for graduate level work.
