Childhood and Social Institutions 1025F/G - Childhood and Social Institutions

An overview of the study of childhood in contemporary humanistic and social scientific disciplines. The course focuses on the concept of childhood as it is socially, historically, and culturally constructed. Emphasis is given to understanding children's perspectives, the discursive and structural position of childhood in modern culture and social institutions.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 2210F/G - Childhood in Culture, Society and Public Policy

This course examines childhood and youth as they are structured by social institutional contexts such as citizenship, labor policies and practices, schools, and disciplinary institutions. Historical, ethnographic, discursive, and structural approaches are used to explore how childhood is produced and contested through a diverse set of cultural, social, and political systems.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 2291A/B-2296A/B - Special Topics in Childhood and Social Institutions

Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3300F/G - Childhood, Citizenship, and Participation

An examination of various attempts to include children in the decision making processes of social projects, settings, agencies and institutions. Various arguments for inclusion of children will be discussed along with an assessment of the outcomes associated with each attempt.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3310F/G - Representing Childhood Empirically

An examination of the representation of childhood in different methodological procedures such as national statistical accounts, surveys, experiments, ethnographies using interviews and direct observations, document based studies, and unobtrusive measures.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3311F/G - Researching Childhood

Each student will be responsible for designing a research project in the social study of childhood using ethnographic, discursive, or structural methodologies. Students will analyze literature, hypothesize research questions, and confront ethical and epistemological questions of social research with children.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3320F/G - Childhood and the Justice System

Children are often required to testify in sexual and computer pornography cases. Courts are attempting to include children’s perspectives on the impact of mental illness, parental incarceration and living with high risk offenders. How is the voice of the child to be heard?
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3325F/G - The Changing Legal Child in Canada

Legislative reforms, policies, protections and practices have been developed to facilitate children’s participation in the courts. This course examines children’s competencies and challenges as court witnesses; and the evolving roles of advocates, witness specialists and other justice system professionals who work with children.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3330F/G - Child Witnesses: Pre-court Preparation

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of pre-court preparation for child and youth victims of crime, taking into account the most recent changes to the Canada Evidence Act and the culture of domestic violence.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3335F/G - Human Rights and Child Advocacy

This course examines the challenges that have arisen in associations with putting international agreements into practice at the national and local levels. Agreements include: UN Resolution 2005/20 - Guidelines on Justice in Matters Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime and the UN 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3340F/G - Seen and Heard: Child Participation in Separation and Divorce

This course examines the prescriptions and practices arising from attempts to increase child participation in separation and divorce by examining various key roles; such as, judges, lawyers, child advocates, parents and children.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3345F/G - Marginalized Childhoods and Access to Justice

This course examines the challenges involved in accessing the justice systems by groups that are usually excluded on the basis of factors; such as, place or residence (e.g. rural or remote settlements); culture; age; ethnicity; and historical experience.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3350F/G - Perspectives on Childhood and Advocacy

Existing and proposed approaches to childhood advocacy are examined through case studies of non-governmental, governmental, and private sector initiatives. The focus is on developing a framework for understanding the various advocacy approaches from the perspective of the participatory discourses within the new social studies of childhood.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3351F/G - Childhood Advocacy and Institutional Cultures

Childhood advocacy discourses and practices operate within institutional contexts populated by existing organizational discourses, policies, and practices often embedded in a network of interconnected agencies and groups. This course examines the enabling as well as restrictive features of this system in terms of facilitating and inhibiting the planning, adoption and implementation of childhood advocacy initiatives.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3352F/G - Childhood Advocacy in Canada

This course examines the discourses and practices of the rapidly evolving childhood advocacy environment, especially at the provincial level as well as within more local civic, justice, social service and health agencies.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3353F/G - Childhood Advocacy Internationally

This course examines recent changes in childhood advocacy initiatives stressing child participation in international organizations as well as in other national jurisdictions.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3360F/G - Childhood and Discourse Theory

This course will introduce students to critical theory, and specifically the application of discourse analysis to the study of childhood past and present. It will involve substantial reading and writing, including an introduction to critical thought and childhood since Freud.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3361F/G - Understanding Changing Childhoods

Exploration of history of childhood emphasizing discourse analysis and ideas. In particular, the discursive origins of modern childhood; the significance of childhood for major shifts in the history of ideas and social thought; and the ways various actors, groups, or movements have participated in the cultural construction of childhood.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3362F/G - Geographies of Childhood

This course introduces students to the literature around the geographies of childhood. Here we consider the spaces and places of childhood, moving from the home and outwards: the school, the street, the locality, the nation and the world. Issues of structure and agency in children's everyday lives are addressed.

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Childhood and Social Institutions 3363F/G - Social Construction of Motherhood

This course examines Western Society’s ideas of motherhood. In particular, the social construction of “ideal” and “bad” mothers from an interdisciplinary perspective. Difference associated with class, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation will be considered.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3370F/G - Children, Youth, and Leisure

The  course uses historical and contemporary approaches toward issues around children, youth and leisure.  The definitions of 'play' and 'leisure' are critically examined.  The course explores the competing moral claims about what children and young people should be doing in terms of the tensions between care, protection, and social control.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3371F/G - Intimate Relations and Personal Life

Drawing on developments in the field of the Sociology of the Family, moving away from narrow definitions of 'family,' this course examines the diversity of existing family practices and personal relationships. It explores issues around families of choice; kinship; intimate friendships in memory, imagination, and everyday lives.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 3391A/B-3396A/B - Special Topics in Childhood and Social Institutions

Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 4410F/G - Independent Study in Childhood and Social Institutions

Reading and discussion of selected topics in Childhood and Social Institutions.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 4411F/G - Research Seminar in Childhood and Social Institutions

Each student will be responsible for engaging in a senior research project in the social study of childhood using experiential, discursive, or structural approaches.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 4412F/G - Senior Paper Seminar in Childhood and Social Institutions

A paper writing seminar linked with CSI 4411F/G. Students will complete the research begun in CSI 4411F/G, and write a senior paper and present their work to the seminar.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 4491A/B-4496A/B - Special Topics in Childhood and Social Institutions

Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 4498F/G - Independent Study

Reading and discussion in selected topics in Childhood and Social Institutions.
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Childhood and Social Institutions 4499F/G - Independent Study

Reading and discussion in selected topics in Childhood and Social Institutions.
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