AP/CCY 3701 3.0 The Arts in Action: Engaging with Newcomer Children through Creative Practice

This course offers university students a unique opportunity to engage directly with refugee and newcomer children through the transformative power of the arts. Students will collaboratively plan, implement, and evaluate creative workshops designed to support the emotional well-being, cultural expression, and social integration of refugee children and youth. Grounded in principles of experiential learning, social […]

AP/CCY 2040 3.0 Children, Nature, Cities

This course explores children and youth in urban natures. Drawing on a socio-cultural understanding of childhood, the course topics will cover discourses of naturein homes, parks and playgrounds; children's environmental politics and activisms;and how cities can plan in the interest of children's access to nature. Prerequisite: CCY 1999

AP/EN 2171 3.0 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 3.00 (prior to Fall 2011), AP/EN 3171 3.00

CCY 2900 3.0 – Queer and Trans Childhoods: A Children's Rights Perspective

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 […]

AP/CCY 3997 6.0

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 […]

CCY 4900 6.0 CCY Work-Focused Placement Course

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 […]

AP/CCY 2300 3.0 Creativity, Play, and Recreation

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.

AP/CMDS 1425 Youth, Media, and Culture

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 […]

AP/CMDS 4708 6.0 Youth Cultures and Media Practices

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 […]

AP/CMDS 3770 3.00 Transnational Media Cultures and Global Youth

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 […]