Courses Directly Concerned with Children's Studies

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Anthropology

AP/ANTH 3160 6.0 Family & Kinship in Comparative Perspective

This course seeks to develop cross-cultural perspectives on such topics as marriage and mating, the formation of domestic groups, extended kinship ties and social networks, the kindred and various forms of descent groups, the family as a pathway to madness and many other topics. The stress will be on the importance of kinship as an ideology and set of symbols for ordering human relationships.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/ANTH 3160 6.0

Anthropology Department 2054 Vari Hall, 416-736-5261, yorkanth@yorku.ca

Canadian Studies

AP/CDNS 4200 6.0A (AP/REI 4200 6.0A) (F) Metis Families in Canada

Explores and analyzes the "long journey" of Metis families as a forgotten people-the Metis (meaning a mixed people) focusing on Metis families since the late 18th century in Canada. The course analyzes the issues confronting Metis families, as understood by them, using Meti Indigenous knowledge systems as well as critiquing the "conventional Metis (meaning a mixed people) focusing on Metis families since the late 18 Canadian" mis\representations of their history and literature of the Metis in their homelands and communities across Canada.

Themes to be addressed may include, among others, the following: Metis identities and their formation, within their families, the significance of historic Metis families and their communities, the nineteenth century resistance movements and Louis Riel as the "prophet of a new world," the significance of their families as Canada's forgotten people in the 2oth and 21st centuries, the Powley case (2003), contemporary environmental issues, as well as the impact of Metis families as an international people in a wider world, including the Canadian North.

Canadian Studies: 262 Vanier College, 416-736-5158, lapshuma@yorku.ca

Dance - Fine Arts

FA/DANC 3370 3.0 Dance Pedagogy

Examines the methods and materials associated with teaching dance technique to the adolescent and the adult. The lecture/studio portion of the courseis augmented by assisting or observing a series of dance classes.

Prerequisite or Corequisite: One of SC/NATS 1610 6.0, SC/NATS 1620 6.0, SC/NATS 1650 6.0 or SC/KINE 2031 3.0 or permission of the department.

FA/DANC 3371 3.0 Young Dancers: Creators, Performers, and Critics

Examines the young dancer as performer, choreographer, audience member and critic. Studies the philosophic principles, pedagogical practices, creative processes, and performance habits of young dancer companies, and/or dance companies that perform for young audiences.

FA/DANC 4375 3.0 Dance and the Child I

Provides theories, tools and applications for teaching dance to children (ages three-six).

Prerequisite: FA/DANC 2206 2.25, FA/DANC 2216 2.25 or permission of the department

FA/DANC 4376 3.0 Dance and the Child II

Provides theories, tools and applications for teaching dance to children (ages seven- 12).

Prerequisite: FA/DANC 2206 2.25, FA/DANC 2216 2.25, or permission of the department

Faculty of Fine Arts: 301 Accolade East, 416-736-5137 , dance@yorku.ca

English

AP/EN 2301 3.0 Coming of Age in Fiction: Novels of Maturation & Initiation

This course examines the sub-genre of prose fiction known as the Bildungsroman, and the variety of forms and approaches evident in examples from the 19th and 20th Centuries.

We will also consider the conventions of the form in light of theoretical approaches to its definition. According to Michael Minden the term 'bildungsroman' "has been translated variously as apprenticeship novel, novel of formation, novel of individual development, novel of self-cultivation, novel of initiation, novel of socialization, novel of education, pedagogical novel, philosophical novel, psychological novel, novel of youth, and life novel." We will consider the significance of such definitions as we examine the conventions of the genre and of its "stories of becoming."

Our investigation will consider how questions of race, class, gender, ethnicity, space, and nationality all impinge on the representation of subjectivity and development in fiction.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/EN 2220 3.0

AP/EN 2303 3.0 Come, Take this Book Dear Child: Children's Literature, 1590-1900

This course is a historical study of children's literature written between 1590 and 1900. It explores possible ways of reading that literature, taking into account such issues as its cultural context and its audience.

While the majority of the texts are from the 18th and 19th centuries, we will consider the roots and the competing histories of children's literature. How are expectations/standards established? What is the relationship between ideology and literary texts? Can children's literature escape the label of didacticism? When does style become a consideration?

Our texts range from the heavily didactic/moral/religious to the fantastic/whimsical/nonsensical but to assume a progression from instruction to entertainment would be a misconception…as will become clearer in the course of our studies.

Imaginative literature for children, including texts by A.A. Milne, L.M. Montgomery, C.S. Lewis, and Robert Munsch

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HUMA 3840 6.0. Prior to Fall 2009: AK/EN/HUMA 3840 6.0, AS/EN 2251 3.0, AS/EN 2550 3.0

AP/EN 2304 3.0 What is Real? Asked the Rabbit: 20th-Century Children's Literature

This course will analyse strategies of argumentation, and will attempt to unveil the cultural context that shapes the making of twentieth-century children's literature. It will also explore the children's book as cultural phenomenon by considering the methods of book production that develop the children's book as a literary artefact as well as the marketing strategies that shape the book for its modern target audiences. Critical writings about children's literature will inform our study of its interpretation.

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/HUMA 3840 6.0, GL/EN 3590 6.0. Prior to Fall 2009: AS/EN 2250 3.0, AK/EN/HUMA 3840 6.0; GL/EN 3590 6.0

AP/EN 3032 6.0 Intercultural Theory and Contemporary Children's Literature

This course teaches students how to apply intercultural theory as well as literary theory to children's literature. We will read theoretical articles on a range of topics, such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, childhood, culture, and literary canons. The introductory lecture and initial readings will demonstrate the extent to which conceptions of childhood have changed throughout history.

We will then situate such debates about childhood (as an idea whose meaning is contested) and other debates about identity (as inflected by race, ethnicity, class, and gender) within the context of theories on multiculturalism and intercultural perspectives. Throughout the course, we will apply these theoretical perspectives to contemporary literature written for children.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AK/EN 3940 6.0. Prior to Summer 2001: AK/EN 3100Y 6.0

Format: Correspondence

AP/EN 3171 3.0A (F) Coming of Age in Fiction

This course examines the sub-genre of prose fiction known as the Bildungsroman or novel of maturation and the variety of forms and approaches evident in examples from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/EN 2301 3.0 (prior to Fall 2011). Prior to Fall 2009: AS/EN 2220 3.0.

AP/EN 3173 3.0 Children's Literature, 1590-1900

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/EN 2303 3.0 (prior to Fall 2011). Prior to Fall 2009: AK/EN/HUMA 3840 6.0, AS/EN 2251 3.0.

AP/EN 3174 3.0M (W) 20th-Century Children's Literature

This course is a historical study of children's literature written in the 20th century. It explores possible ways of reading that literature, taking into account such issues as its cultural context and its audience.

Course Credit Exclusions: GL/EN 3590 6.0, AP/EN 2304 3.0 (prior to Fall 2011). Prior to Fall 2009: AS/EN 2250 3.0, AK/EN/HUMA 3840 6. 0, GL/EN 3590 6.0

Department of English: 208 Stong College, 416-736-5166, lapsengl@yorku.ca

English - Glendon

GL/EN 3590 6.0 Children's Literature

The course will consider what constitutes children's literature, what distinguishes it from adult literature, and how the adult writer views the child's world, as demonstrated in the themes, characterization and styles of the works studied.

Course Credit Exclusion: AK/EN 3840 6.0, GL/EN 4290 6.0

English - Glendon: C221 York Hall, 416-487-6713, english@glendon.yorku.ca

French Studies

AP/FR 3340 6.0 Literature for Young People

This course focuses on literary works created for young Francophone readers or for readers hoping to improve their French. It is also intended to familiarize future teachers with literature as a teaching tool. Taught in French.

French: N727 Ross Building, 416-736-5086, lapsfren@yorku.ca

Geography

AP/GEOG 4700 3.0 Critical Geographies of Education

This course explores the complex interaction between education, space and civil society. Particular emphasis is placed on the effects of policy restructuring on the geographies of educational landscapes. Theoretical and empirical studies are used to explore, analyse and critically engage in current debates.

Prerequisite: 54 credits successfully completed

Department of Geography: N430 Ross, 416-736-5107, lapsgeog@yorku.ca

History

AP/HIST 1080 6.0 Growing Up in North America

What is childhood? How has it changed over time? This course examines what it meant to be young in different times and places in the United States and Canada and explores the interplay of cultural and material circumstances that shaped ideas about child development and children's actual lives.

Throughout the course we ask how gender, race, class, religion, and ability have affected children's experiences and concepts of childhood, and we consider how children and childhood have influenced adults. The course beings in 17th century Aboriginal, African, and European colonial societies. It traces the impact of medicine, education, industrialization, war, and government policy on North American children and childhood. It concludes with an historical perspective on contemporary children's issues, such as mass consumption and violence.

The increasing emotional value placed on children in the 19th and 20th centuries is a major theme, studied in relation to child labour, poverty, and family dynamics. In addition to an historical perspective on what is often seen as a "natural" developmental stage, the course provides an introduction to critical skills in research, writing and historical analysis. Texts include a wide variety of secondary and primary sources, including personal narratives, children's literature, the writing of "experts" in child psychology and education, and material artifacts such as toys.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/HIST 1080 6.0

AP/HIST 4051 6.0 Family, Work, and Community: Canadian Society in 19th and 20th Centuries

This course explores the major themes in the formation of Canadian society through a critical examination of issues and debates aired in recent historical scholarship.Three periods pre-industrial, industrial and post-Second World War provide a temporal framework for analyzing recurrent issues.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/HIST 4051 6.0, Prior to Fall/Winter 2003-3004: AS/HIST 4050C 6.0

History Department: 2140 Vari Hall, 416-736-5123, lapshist@yorku.ca

Human Rights & Equity Studies

AP/HREQ 1910 6.0A (AP/SOSC 1910 6.0A) (Y) The Global South, Human Rights, and Development

An examination of the historical relationship among human rights, economic equity, and the idea of development in the global south; attempts of selected countries to alleviate poverty through various development strategies. This will entail a survey of socio- economic structures, and legal-political institutions in the global south, and an analysis of the relationship between the global south and the global north.

Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. This course will not count for major credit in HREQ.

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/SOSC 1430 9.0, prior to Fall 2009: AK/SOSC 1910 6.0, AP/SOSC 1910 6.0, AS/SOSC 1430 9.0

Human Rights & Equity Studies: 302 Atkinson College, 416-736-5235, degs@yorku.ca

Humanities

AP/HUMA 2680 9.0 Early Times: Literature and the Imagination of the Child

This course provides a historical survey of texts for children, mainly literary but including also films and picture books. In particular it explores the emergence of the various genres (e.g. poetry, fantasy stories, domestic novels, tales of adventure, animal stories and problem narratives) and traces their development from their origins, generally in the Victorian period, through to our own times. The growth of children's film is also considered, and critical and educational issues connected with all these texts are examined and discussed.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/HUMA 2680 9.0, AK/EN 3820 6.0

AP/HUMA 3103 6.0 Childhood and Children in the Ancient Mediterranean

The course will examine childhood experience and the social construction of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean from the Bronze Age down to the end of classical antiquity.

AP/HUMA 3685 6.0 Canadian Children's Literature and Culture

This course surveys and analyzes Canadian children's literature historically in relation to the national culture and the sub-cultures of authors and illustrators, as well as with respect to the nature and significance of the children's culture that received it.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/HUMA 3685 6.0; Prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004: AS/HUMA 3000P 6.0

AP/HUMA 3690 6.0 Children's Literature & Film Adaptations

This course analyzes changing constructions of childhood and adolescence in children's literature and adaptations of these constructions in film versions. Issues of 'translation' are highlighted both in critical readings and through the pairing of literary and film texts.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/HUMA 3690 6.0

AP/HUMA 3691 3.0A (F) Picture Books in Children's Culture

Analyzes interrelationships between literary, visual, and performative arts in children's picture books. Explores relationships between adult and child readers as they mutually make meaning in picture book reading experiences. Studies children's picture books' thematic breadth; diverse word-image relationships; historical development; genres (non-fiction, fiction, wordless, verse, graphic novel

AP/HUMA 3692 6.0A (Y) Representation of Children's Alterity

Analyzes representations of children's and youths' alterity in picture books, graphic novels, novels, life writing, documentary and fiction films, photographs, art, advertising, and non-fiction for children and adults. Alterity refers to the "Other," marginalized through gender, sexuality, race, class, physical and mental (dis)abilities, religion, nation, and the difference between being human and being animal, cyborg, vampire, or alien.

AP/HUMA 3697 3.0M Writing by Children and Youth

Usually, "children's literature" is assumed to be literature written by adults for children. However, this course focuses on literature and other writing created by children and youth themselves, exploring important issues raised by this other, arguably "real" children's literature.

Most attention that has been paid to writing by children and youth has been either a fascination with the juvenilia of canonical adult authors or an educational and psychological interest in what children's writing reveals about children. Comparatively little attention has been paid to the literary nature of children's and youths' writing.

In this course, we will study several kinds of writing by children and youth: exceptional cases of writers who have published important texts before they were adults; creative writing submitted to literary journals and contests; poetry and songwriting; social activist texts; online "writing," including blogging, fan fiction, and interactive games.

We will consider obstacles in accessing writing by children and youth as well as questions of "authenticity" of such writing including issues of censorship, given the heavy adult mediation of most areas of children's lives. Through this study, we will interrogate the terms "children," "youth," "children's writing," and "children's literature" and will debate whether there is such a thing as "écriture enfantine" or "littérature enfantine" (Chapleau).

Students in this course will:

define "literature" and "writing" to determine crucial differences between the two.
define "children" and "youth" to consider whether these are solely chronological markers or whether there are distinctive aspects of "écriture enfantine" which adult authors might access (as, for example, visual artists have consciously adopted childlike perspectives and techniques).
gain familiarity with famous texts by children and youth, including juvenilia of canonical adult authors but also influential texts by young people as young people.
analyze generic differences in writing by children and youth, investigating whether there are particular affinities between children and youth and specific genres.
analyze various sites of production of texts by children and youth, including print and online journals devoted to writing by children and youth and contests for and resulting publications of writing by children and youth.
explore interpretation and reception of texts authored by children and youth, paying particular attention to whether adults and children receive such texts differently.
examine adult inspiration, mediation, and censorship of writing by children and youth to determine the effects of adult intervention on writing by children and youth.
inquire to what extent it is possible to access "authentic" writing by children and youth.
analyze writing by children and youth to interrogate whether there are distinctive narratological structures, patterns of representation, uses of humour, characterization, focalization, or intertextuality.
analyze and report on Internet-based writing by children and youth.
compare and contrast writing by children and youth with writing by adults.

AP/HUMA 3698 3.0A (S1) Canadian Children's Health and Quality of Life: A Rights-based Perspective

This course provides a critical analysis of children's health in the broadest of conceptualizations. Students will explore multiple influences on children's health, as impacted upon by contemporary culture and children's culture. The ethos of this course is the respect of children and youth as human beings, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child (UNCRC) is viewed as the most important social determinant of health for children. Concepts including ageism, human rights and citizenship underpin all course conversations.

Students will engage in experiential education/community activism regarding children's health,i.e.there will be some field work associated with this course. Areas of inquiry include but are not limited to: advocacy, children's rights to health, health care and within health care institutions/settings, consent and capacity, autonomy, paternalism, racism, ageism, youth-centered care, violence/abuse, mental health, body image/sizeism, sexuality,identity,gender roles,homelessness,education,marginalization as violence,indigenous children and youth movements. The course will involve community based learning, direct learning from youth, tests, and creative/aesthetic expressions of student scholarship in the form of film, photography and other creative modalities.

AP/HUMA 3960 6.0 Mothering and Motherhood

This course examines motherhood as it is theorized and analyzed in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and as it is portrayed in women's fictional and autobiographical writings. The history, sociology, psychology and politics of motherhood with emphasis on class, cultural and racial differences are investigated.

AP/HUMA 4141 6.0 INTR (SU) (Internet) Children, Youth, and Digital Culture.

Investigates how children and youth use digital technologies and new media both as "extensions" of individual identities and facilitators of "youth culture." Texting, sexting, tweeting, learning, playing, protesting, creating—how are youth making meaning of the world through digital youth cultures? What are children and youth doing in a digital world and what are the implications of this for everyone?

Much research about new media and children and youth has treated young people solely as vulnerable victims in constant danger of being exploited by digital media. However, some recent research explores how young people themselves use digital culture as an integral part of both their individual identities and collective youth culture. A recent World Summit on Media for Children and Youth asked two seminal questions: "What Are the Children Doing with the Media? And What Are the Media Doing with the Children?" It is the first of these questions that is the primary concern of this course, one which firmly grounds the course in the humanities as it attends to the values that children and youth find in and assign to digital technologies and new media..

Central topics dealt with in the course include: Introduction to Children, Youth, and Digital Culture; Methodologies for Studying Children and Youth Online; Constructions of Childhood, Youth, and New Media; Digital Culture and Child and Youth Identity; Child and Youth Friendships and Relationships on the Social Web; Gaming in Child and Youth Culture; Creativity or Piracy in Child and Youth Culture; Children's and Youths' "Work": DIY Culture; Child and Youth Citizenship: Digital Activism; Accessibility: the Myth of "digital natives" and "The Net Generation."

AP/HUMA 4410 6.0 Narratives of the Family in Modern Korea

This course places the development of novels, tales, folk operas and other narratives focusing on the family within the context of changing cultural patterns in modern Korea.

Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/HUMA 4410 6.0. Prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004: AS/HUMA 4000D 6.00

Department of Humanities: 262 Vanier College, 416-736-5158, lapshuma@yorku.ca

Kinesiology

HH/KINE 3340 3.0 Growth, Maturation & Physical Activity

This course introduces human physical growth and maturation, and examines these processes as they relate to lifespan motor and psychological development from prenatal to early adulthood. A main objective is to provide students with a framework for understanding the interaction between the biological/physical and psychological aspects of human development as it relates to physical activity and physical activity programs.

Special emphasis will be placed on factors that impact physical activity participation such as gender, socio-economic class, ethnicity, disabilities, etc and examination of good practices aimed at promoting physical activity among children and youth.

HH/KINE 3480 3.0 Outdoor and Experiential Education

This course presents fundamental concepts and practices in outdoor and experiential education. We will then look at how this theory relates to the philosophy, characteristics and objectives of education "in, for and about" the outdoors.

We will discuss different learning styles and teaching strategies and consider current examples of outdoor education including environmental, physical and adventure education, adventure based counseling and corporate development training. The issues of risk management, leadership, and group development in the outdoors will be explored. Philosophical and ethical issues such as emotional safety, locus of control, risk management, the relationship between ecotourism and conservation education and outdoor education as a tool for moral development are possible areas for discussions.

HH/KINE 3530 3.0 Theories of Play

The purpose of this course is to enable students to consider a critical analysis of definitions, concepts, philosophies and assumptions of classical, recent and modern theories of play with implications for macro and micro programming and planning for play service systems.

Prerequisite: 1000 level Social Science course
Course Credit Exclusion: Prior to Fall 2009: AS/PHED 3530 3.0

HH/KINE 4560 3.0 Physical Activity & Children: Pedagogy

This course examines the most effective ways to develop "physical literacy" among elementary children. It draws upon recent research in kinesiology, physiology, child development, and health and well-being to explore how best to provide children with strong physical skills, strategies, and health promoting behaviours that will give them the competence and confidence to lead active, healthy lives.

Kinesiology & Health Science: 341 Norman Bethune College, 416-736-5807, ugkhs@yorku.ca

Linguistics

AP/LING 3210 3.0 First Language Acquisition

This course introduces students to the study of first language acquisition including the acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics. It provides a survey of different approaches to first language acquisition, including social interactionist, innatist, and information processing. Special attention is paid to the type of data relevant to the different approaches.

Prerequisite: AP/LING 1000 6.0 or AP/LING 3220 or HH/PSYCH 3290 3.0
Course Credit Exclusion: None. Prior to Fall 2009: AS/LING 3210 3.0

Linguistics Program: S561 Ross, 416-736-5016, www.yorku.ca/laps/dlll/linguistics/

Psychology

HH/PSYC 2110 3.0 Developmental Psychology

This course considers physical, intellectual, emotional and social development from birth through adolescence and the impact of the interaction of these various aspects of development upon the individual as a whole.

Prerequisite: HH/PSYC 1010 6.0 with a minimum grade of C
Course Credit Exclusion: GL/PSYC 3300 3.0, AK/PSYC 3240 3.0

HH/PSYC 3500 3.0 Development in Adolescence

The primary purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive theoretical understanding of adolescence in contemporary society. First, the fundamental biological, cognitive, and social transitions of adolescence will be reviewed. Second, the key contexts of adolescent development will be highlighted including families, peers, schools, media and work and leisure settings.

Finally, the major psychosocial developments of adolescence will be discussed including identity, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, and achievement. Throughout the course, current and classical research findings will be presented with an emphasis on adolescents in Canada.

Prerequisite: AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 1010 6.0 with a minimum grade of C and AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2110 3.0

HH/PSYC 3520 3.0 Infancy

This course covers the current state of knowledge on various aspects of development during the infancy period – typically considered the first two years of life. Class lectures and discussions will focus on infant's perceptual, cognitive and social-cognitive abilities. Underlying our topics will be consideration of methodology, empirical evidence, and theoretical issues. Further, the role of biological and experiential mechanisms (such as maternal attunement) for the development of infants' capacities will also be discussed.

Prerequisite: AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 1010 6.0 with a minimum grade of C and AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2110 3.0

HH/PSYC 3630 3.0 The Psychology of the Family

A study of the family unit, drawing on findings and concepts from the areas of developmental, clinical and social psychology. Research on the social psychology and psychodynamics of the family group is considered.

Prerequisite: AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 1010 6.0 with a minimum grade of C
Course Credit Exclusion: AK/PSYC 3700J 3.0

HH/PSYC 4010 3.0/6.0 Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Major modern theories of child development, with a focus on the infancy and early childhood periods, are extensively reviewed and their corresponding data and methodologies are analyzed. Comparison of major approaches, learning, cognitive, neuropsychological, will be a constant theme of discussions.

Prerequisite: AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 1010 6.0 or AK/PSYC 2410 6.0 with a minimum grade of C; AK/AS/HH/SC/ PSYC 2030 3.0 or AK/PSYC 2530 3.0 or substitute; one of AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2020 6.0, AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2021 3.0, AK/HH/PSYC 2510 3.0 or substitutes; and AK/AS/HH/SC PSYC 2110 3.0 or AK/PSYC 3240 3.0.

Students must be in an Honours Program in Psychology and have completed 14 university courses or 84 credits (Excluding Education Courses). Course Credit Exclusion: AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 4010 3.0, AK/PSYC 4140 3.0, GL/PSYC 4510 3.0

HH/PSYC 4460 6.0 Atypical Development

An examination of problems relating to children with physical, mental, social and emotional problems. An extensive exploration of the nature and causes of the dysfunction, and of experimental methods, research findings and current remedial techniques.

Prerequisite: AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 1010 6.0 or AK/PSYC 2410 6.0 with a minimum grade of C; AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2030 3.0 or AK/PSYC 2530 3.0 or substitute; one of AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2020 6.0, AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2021 3.0, AK/HH/PSYC 2510 3.0 or substitutes; AK/AS/HH/SC/PSYC 2110 3.0.

Students must be in an Honours Program in Psychology and have completed 14 university courses or 84 credits (Excluding Education Courses)

Course Credit Exclusion: GL/PSYC 3510 3.0

Psychology: 101 Behavioural Sciences Building, 416-736-5117, www.yorku.ca/health/psyc/

Psychology - Glendon

GL/PSYC 3300 3.0 Introductory Development: Infancy and Childhood

Theory and research in contemporary psychology are presented. Theories include Piaget's, Erickson's, attachment theory and learning theory. Topics include the development of motor skills, perception, learning, cognition, language, the brain, social behaviour, emotional behaviour, personality etc.

Prerequisite: GL/PSYC 2510 6.0 or equivalent
Course Credit Exclusion: AK/PSYC 2110 3.0

GL/PSYC 3510 3.0 Disturbances in Development

What is the development process? When is it considered abnormal? What causes the psychopathology? Theory, research and intervention related to infantile autism, childhood schizophrenia, leanring disorders, mental retardation, genetic disorders, child abuse, etc. are presented.

Prerequisite: GL/PSYC 2510 6.0 and either GL/PSYC 3230 3.0, GL/PSYC 3300 3.0 or GL/PSYC 3310 3.0 or their equivalents taken either concurrently with, or preferably prior to GL/PSYC 3510 3.0

Course Credit Exclusion: AK/PSYC 4460 3.0

Psychology - Glendon: 125 York Hall, 416-487-6738, psychology@glendon.yorku.ca

Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity

AP/REI 4200 6.0A (CDNS 4200 6.0A) (F) Metis Families in Canada*

Explores and analyzes the "long journey" of Metis families as a forgotten people-the Metis (meaning a mixed people) focusing on Metis families since the late 18th century in Canada. The course analyzes the issues confronting Metis families, as understood by them, using Meti Indigenous knowledge systems as well as critiquing the "conventional Canadian" mis\representations of their history and literature of the Metis in their homelands and communities across Canada.

Themes to be addressed may include, among others, the following: Metis identities and their formation, within their families, the significance of historic Metis families and their communities, the nineteenth century resistance movements and Louis Riel as the "prophet of a new world," the significance of their families as Canada's forgotten people in the 20th and 21st centuries, the Powley case (2003), contemporary environmental issues, as well as the impact of Metis families as an international people in a wider world, including the Canadian North.

Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity: 302 Atkinson, 416-736-5235, degs@yorku.ca

Social Science

AP/SOSC 1910 6.0 The Global South, Human Rights and Development

This will entail a survey of socio-economic structures, and legal-political institutions in the global south, and an analysis of the relationship between the global south and the global north. Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. This course will not count for major credit in HREQ.

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/SOSC 1430 9.0, prior to Fall 2009: AK/SOSC 1910 6.0, AP/SOSC 1910 6.0, AS/SOSC 1430 9.0

AP/SOSC 2150 9.0 Health in Crisis: Issues of Health Environments and Poverty

This course introduces students to issues of environmental health and poverty, which have created crises in personal and social well-being. Students will assess international, historical and contemporary examples which relate to these issues.

Note: This course has been approved in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies for general education credit.

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/SOCI 3660 6.0, GL/SOCI 2685 3.0 and GL/SOSC 2685 3.0, prior to Fall 2009: AK/SOSC 3450 6.0, AS/SOCI 3660 6.0, AS/SOSC 2150 9.0, GL/SOCI 2685 3.0 and GL/SOSC 2685 3.0

Sociology

AP/SOCI 3660 6.0 Families and Social Change

This course provides a wide-ranging and provocative analysis of the social forces and individual responses contributing to diversity in family life, emphasizing how social, economic, political changes in Canadian society have reshaped family forms and social policy.

Course Credit Exclusion: AP/SOSC 3601 6.0, GL/SOCI 2685 3.0, GL/SOSC 2685 3.0. Prior to Fall 2009: AS/SOCI 3660 6.0, AK/SOCI 3450 6.0, AK/SOSC 3601 6.0, GL/SOCI 2685 3.0, GL/SOSC 2685 3.0

AP/SOCI 4060 3.0 The Sociology of Parent/Child Relations

This course examines the parent-child relationship as interactive process within social structure. This relationship is explored in terms of reciprocity, multiple levels, the dynamic lifespan model, and the mediation role of social and cultural factors such as class and ethnicity.

Prerequisite: Students must have successfully completed 84 credits, however, 3rd year Honours students with 78 completed credits who are also taking summer courses may enroll.

Course Credit Exclusion: None. Prior to Fall 2009: AS/SOCI 4060 3.0

AP/SOCI 4830 3.0 Childhood and Violence

This course explores violence experienced by children and violence committed by children. The course explores the ways that children and adults learn, use and experience violence (physical and sexual) in societal settings such as schools, churches, television and war.

Prerequisite: Students must have successfully completed 84 credits, however, 3rd year Honours students with 78 completed credits who are also taking summer courses may enroll Course Credit Exclusion: None. Prior to Fall 2009: AS/SOCI 4830 3.0

Department of Sociology: 2060 Vari Hall, 416-736-5015, www.yorku.ca/laps/soci/

Theatre – Fine Arts

FA/THEA 3450 6.0A (Y) Theatre for Young Audiences

An introductory studio course in the theory and technique of theatre for young audiences. Prerequisite: AK/THEA2440 6.0 or, for students with experience in working with children and young people, permission of the Theatre Coordinator.

FA/THEA 4334 3.0 Theatre of the Holocaust (Not Offered 2012-13)

Studying a range of Holocaust scripts, from adult to theatre for young audiences, we will examine contemporary issues of representation in the Fine Arts. There will be a strong educational perspective to this course, as it considers how to engage the Fine Arts in the teaching of the Holocaust, as a form for shaping memory and memorial. Course Credit Exclusion: FA/THEA 4150B 3.0/FA/THEA 4150B 6.0, FA/THEA 4334 6.0

FA/THEA 4440 6.0 Drama and Education

Explores drama/theatre in an educational context. In addition to examining the major literature in drama in education over the past four decades, the class provides handson work in exploring the practical uses of drama in the classroom or in other educational environments e.g., community based. Third- or fourth-year standing. Open to non-majors.

Course Credit Exclusion: AK/THEA 4500A 6.0

Theatre – Fine Arts: 318 Centre for Film & Theatre, 416-736-5172, theadept@yorku.ca

Women's Studies

AP/WMST 3508 6.0A (AP/HUMA 3960 6.0A) (Y) Mothering and Motherhood

AP/WMST 2553 3.0 Girlhood: Feminist Perspectives

Introduces students to the emerging interdisciplinary field of Girlhood Studies focusing on the social, political and cultural relations that shape girls' lives and experiences. Specific focus will be placed on notions of quality of life, femininity, agency and subjectivity. Explores how the intersectionalities of gender, age, race, class, ability are central to girls' lives and to contemporary Girlhood Studies.

Note: An introductory course in Women's Studies is recommended.

Women's Studies: 206 Founders College, 416-650-8144 ext. 1, lapswmst@yorku.ca