By exploring the intersections of queer theory, children's studies, and children's rights, this course investigates the unique challenges and issues faced by 2SLGBTQI+ young people and their experiences of queer joy in North American and global contexts. Through a critical examination of how gender and sexuality are discursively constructed and produced in various childhood and […]
This course begins at Keele campus where students prepare for archival field work abroad. It incorporates book history, childhood studies, literary and archival methodologies in its exploration of the social and textual production of children's literature. It focuses on a selection of historical children's texts held in special collections to study how these artefacts shape […]
This course provides hands-on, Work-Focused EE opportunities in the form of placements to fourth-year CCY students. Students complete part-time, supervised placements with an organization/employer that helps them gain relevant work experience and meet the learning outcomes of the CCY Program. Students complete course work and placement hours at the same time. The course takes 140 […]
Drawing on international children's rights conventions, this course explores children's rights to play and recreation, as well as the ways that young people actively participate in arts and culture. Students will examine a wide range of case studies of children's play and leisure in a variety of contexts.
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of media produced and consumed by and for young people. Together we will consider how popular media such as television, film, digital media (including games, music, and social media), and print media shape the production, consumption, and representation of youth and youth cultures. Guided explicitly by […]
This course analyzes contemporary youth cultures with an emphasis on the ways in which youth engage with diverse and converging media texts and practices. The course develops a contextual understanding of media literacy, identities, embodiments, subcultures, social networks and civic engagements within the lives of youth, analyzing media institutions and policies, consumer cultures, technologies as […]
The aim of this course is to provide students with an overview of the critical debates and issues surrounding youth media culture in a transnational context. This course will trace the impact of the transnational mobility and ubiquity of media such as film, television, music, mobile technologies, video games and the internet, on the proliferation […]
This course introduces dramatic arts as a means of exploring issues in childhood and youth studies. Students in this course examine the development of local and global performances by, for, and about children and youth, actively engaging in performative inquiry to analyze course concepts.
This course explores the concept of children’s rights, directly as it relates to youth activism, from a critical childhood studies lens. Students will examine recent youth activist movements, conducting in-depth analysis into how these movements interact with local and global children’s rights documents and theories. Pre-requisite: AP/CCY 1999 6.00
In this course students gain experience in using various approaches to study the roles of translation in the development of children's literature and films in North and South Korea. While the two countries share cultural traditions, their socio-political systems lead them to import and use foreign materials, as well as to export their own materials, […]