Description:
This course offers professionals serving middle and high school students the opportunity to increase your appreciation and knowledge of fantasy and speculative fiction through intense reading and discussion of representative works. Among the authors whose works we will cover are Ursula LeGuin, William Sleator, and Robin McKinley. You will read texts on topics such as reader response/reception theory and explore the nature of literary response through examination of your own responses the responses of the other professionals in the class. Finally, we will investigate and consider options for teaching Fantasy and Speculative Fiction with young people.