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AP/HUMA 3000 6.0 Directed Reading

Students will do supervised reading and writing in one or two selected areas. Students wishing to enrol should contact the Department of Humanities.

AP/CCY 3699 3.00 Childhood, culture, and musical arts

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 […]

AP/CCY 3697 3.00 Writing By Children and Youth

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 […]

AP/CCY 3694 3.00 Contemporary Childhoods: Theories, Policies and Stereotypes

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 […]

AP/CCY 3685 3.00 Canadian Children’s Literature and Culture

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 […]

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 […]

AP/CCY 3998 6.00 The Child and the Book: Children’s Literature Research Methods

This course incorporates book history, childhood studies, literary analysis, and digital humanities methodologies in its exploration of the social and textual production of children’s literature. Beginning with entrepreneurial printer and children’s bookseller John Newbery’s new methods of marketing to child readers and the “invention” of childhood as a post-Enlightenment project, this course will discuss the […]

AP/HREQ 3964 3.00 Equity and Human Rights in Schooling

This course examines issues of inequality and equity in education from a critical human rights perspective. It engages with literature linking educational rights to human rights, adopting a comparative perspective throughout. Efforts to achieve equity in education are examined.

AP/HREQ 3961 3.00 International Human Rights and Children

This course critically examines international children’s rights frameworks and whether and how they translate into practice. We will explore competing conceptualizations of childhood and of Western human rights discourses and consider children’s roles as agents of social change. We will also apply these rights frameworks to analyze contemporary issues impacting children in local and global […]

AP/CMDS 3725 3.00 Young People’s Media in Canada

This course explores the production of media for young people here in Canada. Canada has a long history of producing media texts for children and youth. Our children's television, film, music, magazine and videogame industries are rich and diverse, and are exported around the world. Yet, despite this richness and depth, the story of Canadian […]