AP/CCY 4144 3.00 Indigenous Knowledge and Children’s Literature in North America

Analyzes and examines Children's Literature and Indigenous Knowledge in North America, focusing on the similarities among diverse traditions of contemporary Indigenous Children's writers in both Canada and in the United States. Explores the many and the varied interpretations of the Indigenous Children and their historical experiences, residential schools, definitions of cultures, childhood self-determination and the […]

AP/CCY 4142 6.00 Contemporary Children’s Culture

The purpose of this class is to understand children’s lives around the world, with particular focus on the lived experiences of children/youth and childhood/adolescence in the Majority world. In a globalized world our connections to Majority world children are closer than ever – the shoes you are wearing, the music you listen to, issues of […]

AP/CCY 4141 6.00 Youth and Digital Culture

How are children's lives structured in digital spaces or networked publics? What do these spaces look like? How do children access them and use them? Are they digital homes for institutional voices for and about children, which seek to organize, categorize, and confine children's lives to social norms as dictated by adults? Or are they […]

AP/CCY 4140 6.00 Childhood in Canadian Culture

This course analyzes childhood as represented and experienced in Canadian culture through time, across regions, and among cultural groups. There are two primary aspects to the course: first, an exploration of the range of representations of children and childhood in Canadian expressive culture through different moments of history, throughout different regions, and among different cultural […]

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 […]

AP/SOCI 4060 3.00 The Sociology of Parent-Child Relationships

This course seeks to examine the dynamics of parent/child relationships. Theoretical models and illustrative data from sociology and related disciplines of anthropology and psychology are utilized to provide a comprehensive understanding of this process. The focus of the course will be upon understanding how research into parent-child relations has evolved from unidirectional to bi-directional resulting in […]

AP/HIST 4051 6.00 Family, Work and Community: Canadian Society in the 19th and 20th centuries

This course explores 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.

HH/PSYC 4010 6.00 Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Some major modern theories of child development are compared and their corresponding data and methodologies are analyzed.

HH/PSYC 4010 3.00 Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Some major modern theories of child development are compared and their corresponding data and methodologies are analyzed.

AP/CCY 3999 6.00 Research with Children and Young People

This course focuses on child-centered research approaches to research design, knowledge production (gathering and analyzing data), and disseminating knowledge. The course urges students to acknowledge the value commitments that inform research methods and the research process. Students will learn how research methods inform research outcomes. Some of the key questions that will be addressed in […]