Explores the role of musical arts in the lives of children and young people. Understanding music in its broadest sense, including the integration of dance, performance, poetry, storytelling, singing, and instrument playing, will provide the context to examine how children engage in musical arts in a global context and what this means in their daily […]
This course critically analyzes children's health and quality of life. Students will explore multiple influences on contemporary Canadian children's health. The course ethos is the respect of children and youth as human beings, with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child viewed as the most important social determinant of health for Canadian […]
Analyzes 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? If so, what can literature written by children tell us about children and about literature?
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 […]
How have South Asian religions been represented, practiced, communicated, and transformed through popular culture? How are religious themes, images, and ideas explored in contemporary film, television, print media and music? Focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism, the course explores concepts of the religious and the popular in ancient and medieval South Asian art forms […]
In this course students gain experience in using various approaches to study the roles of translation in the development of children's literature and films in North and South Korea. While the two countries share cultural traditions, their socio-political systems lead them to import and use foreign materials, as well as to export their own materials, […]
This course explores the experiences, perspectives, and roles of children and youth in migration processes in a global context. Through an examination of various theoretical texts and case studies, this course provides a critical introduction to a variety of issues currently debated in the field of childhood and migration, including agency and identity, emotion and […]
This course examines children's perspectives on their own lives and experiences in specific cultural, social and/or community contexts. Children's cultures are explored outside the parameters of adulthood, as a distinctive phase during which children are bearers and creators of an intricate social system that negotiates and influences their relationships with the world around them. This […]
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 […]
This course provides an introduction to the graphic novel form, a medium of literature for and about children and youth. Students will ready widely in this genre, with an attention given to texts from a wide range of multicultural contexts, to explore how this new medium shapes and interrogates our perceptions of childhood and youth […]