Session

Summer 2024

 Term

S1

Format

SEMR

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

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 course explores how children perceive their own culture and how issues such as race, class, culture, gender, sexuality and ethnicity affect children in a globalized world. Rather than studying the unified concept of childhood this course embodies the idea that children in globalized communities create and foster their own distinct culture/s. Throughout the course students in the class are challenged to expand their ideas and preconceived notions of childhood and critically examine how culture, society and/or community contribute to our understanding of childhood through specific and focused contexts. Course credit exclusions: None. Note: Priority will be given to Children's Studies and Humanities majors and minors.

Course Start Up

Course Websites hosted on York's "eClass" are accessible to students during the first week of the term. It takes two business days from the time of your enrolment to access your course website. Course materials begin to be released on the course website during the first week. To log in to your eClass course visit the York U eClass Portal and login with your Student Passport York Account. If you are creating and participating in Zoom meetings you may also go directly to the York U Zoom Portal.

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