AP/HUMA 4146 3.00
Children's Culture in Context
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.
Note: Priority will be given to Children’s Studies and Humanities majors and minors.