Note: In order to find a course in the new 4 digit numbering system using an old 3 digit number, please refer to the conversion list below. Before registering for courses with the new 4 digit numbering system, please ensure that you have not previously taken the course in its 3 digit form.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
1020 -
Introduction to Childhood and Social Institutions
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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
2200 -
Childhood in Culture, Society, and Public Policy
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An examination of childhood and youth using ethnographic, discursive, and structural approaches in a diverse set of settings and institutions: including families, popular culture and mass media, educational institutions, welfare and protection agencies, the law, and political activity.
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CSI 1020, registration in the second year of the Childhood and Social Institutions
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Childhood and Social Institutions
2291A/B-2296A/B -
Special Topics in Childhood and Social Institutions
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Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
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CSI 1020 or permission of the CSI Program Coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3300F/G -
Childhood, Citizenship, and Participation
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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 each attempt.
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CSI 2200 or permission of the CSI program coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3310F/G -
Representing Childhood Empirically
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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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Enrolment in third year or above of (old) honors or (new) Honors Specialization in CSI, or permission of the Program Coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3311F/G -
Researching Childhood
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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 in ways that building upon Interdisciplinary Studies 3310F/G.
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Interdisciplinary Studies 3310F/G, or permission of the CSI Program Coordinator.
Space permitting, 3rd or 4th year Honors Double Major students with CSI as one of their Majors can enroll at the specified time during the registration period. Space permitting, students in the 3rd year of a CSI three or four year program who obtained an average of 75% in CSI 2200 may be granted special permission to take the course.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3360F/G -
Childhood and Discourse Theory
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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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3rd or 4th year standing, with a cumulative average of 70%.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3361F/G -
Childhood and History
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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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3rd or 4th year standing, with a cumulative average of 70%.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3370F/G -
Children, Youth, and Leisure
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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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Honors standing in third-year or fourth-year in either CSI or Sociology. Subject to availability, third-year and fourth-year students in other modules may be admitted by special permission.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3371F/G -
Intimate Relations and Personal Life
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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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Honors standing in third-year or fourth-year in either CSI or Sociology. Subject to availability, third-year and fourth-year students in other modules may be admitted by special permission.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
3391A/B-3396A/B -
Special Topics in Childhood and Social Institutions
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Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
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CSI 1020 or permission of the CSI Program Coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
4410F/G -
Independent Study in Childhood and Social Institutions
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Reading and discussion of selected topics in Childhood and Social Institutions.
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Must be in the 4th year of the CSI Honors program.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
4411F/G -
Research Seminar in Childhood and Social Institutions
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Each student will be responsible for engaging in a senior research project in the social study of childhood using ethnographic, discursive, or structural methodologies. This will require that students implement and/or adjust the research design that was created in CSI 3311F/G.
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CSI 3311F/G or permission of the CSI Program Coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
4412F/G -
Senior Paper Seminar in Childhood and Social Institutions
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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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CSI 4411F/G or permission of the CSI Program Coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
4491A/B-4496A/B -
Special Topics in Childhood and Social Institutions
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Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
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CSI 1020 or permission of the CSI Program Coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
4498F/G -
Independent Study
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Reading and discussion in selected topics in Childhood and Social Institutions.
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Enrolment in fourth year of the Honors Specialization offered in CSI or written permission of the Program Coordinator.
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Childhood and Social Institutions
4499F/G -
Independent Study
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Reading and discussion in selected topics in Childhood and Social Institutions.
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Enrolment in fourth year of the Honors Specialization offered in CSI or written permission of the Program Coordinator.
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