Analyses transitions from adolescence to emerging adulthood of immigrant youth. Employs a life course perspective to examine selected experiences and concerns encountered by newcomer youth when settling and integrating into life in Canada. Possible topics include health and mental health, educational experiences and attainment, employment experiences and access/use of social services. Prerequisite: Students must have […]
Students in this course have the opportunity to participate in the “field as the classroom” in order to examine the key concepts, methodologies, and theoretical approaches that frame the interdisciplinary, rights-based and child-centered field of Children’s Studies. The course will include reviewing, evaluating and analyzing theories surrounding univeralism and children’s rights, post-colonial theories on race […]
This course examines the role of musical arts in the lives of children and young people in global contexts. Students will engage in an in-depth examination of musical arts in its broadest sense from culturally specific examples around the world. Through reading, listening, watching, engaging, performing, and analysis, students in this course will have the […]
The course looks at various types of writing by children and youth rather than what is usually (and problematically) understood by "children's literature"--writing by adults for children. Can adults access "authentic" children's writing? Can such writing be considered literature? What can writing by young people tell us about children and youth, and different kinds of […]
This is an in-depth course that will explore contemporary theories of childhood and their implication on the lived experiences of children around the world. The first module of the course explores new and developing childhood theories within the fields of children's geographies, children and development, gender studies, digital culture and within international rights discourse. Reviewing […]
In 2017, the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections (CATSC) at Scott Library acquired a special collection of rare 19th- and 20th-century children’s literature. Many of the books in the collection feature Canadian settings or were authored by Canadian writers. Thematically, the books in the collection align with the objective of HUMA 3685, which is […]
This course builds on the theoretical foundations learned in CCY 3999. In order to take this course you MUST have completed the prerequisite CCY 3999 as you will draw heavily on your previous course materials to complete CCY 4999. CCY 4999 is a project-focused course. You will be expected to complete a comprehensive research project. […]
In this course, students conduct a classroom-based research project (framework for which is created in CCY 3998). This will include undertaking a unique research project focusing on children’s literature, conducting independent research using the children’s literature collection held by the CTASC (Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections) at YUL, in addition to other children’s literature […]
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.
Analyzes Anne Frank's World War II diary from literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Examines the evolution of Frank and the diary as cultural icons by analyzing representations of Frank as a figure in literature, including novels, poems, films, theatre, exhibitions, memoirs, and other people's diaries, with an eye to personal, collective, and historical memory.