AP/CCY 4139 3.00

Documenting Childhood and Youth in Film

This online course explores the role of documentary films in understanding the culture of childhood and youth in a global context. Students will engage in an in-depth examination of documentary films (both local and international) from multicultural contexts around the world. Through reading, watching, and analysis, students in this course will have the opportunity to critically examine how documentary films represent children and young people and how claims of authenticity in the realm of documentary film making shift our understanding of childhood and youth in a global context.
Students in this course will have the opportunity to engage with current research in the fields of anthropology, film studies, childhood studies, humanities and beyond to examine how documentary films shape, and often reinforce, our perceptions of children and young people in a global world.