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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
This course is a critical, cross-disciplinary introduction to the global cultures of children and young people. It explores the ways young people in diverse places and spaces participate in and express social and cultural values and practices. It seeks to understand culture in the contexts of everyday social practice and the shared values and beliefs […]
This course introduces students to the field of Children, Childhood & Youth (CCY) studies. It reviews many of the methodological approaches that have governed and continue to govern the study of children, childhood and youth. This course focuses on issues around discourses of the rights and power of children and youth and the “new childhood […]