WGS 3800 Childhood and Social Justice

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies from a social justice perspective. The course provides students with foundational knowledge to critically assess current policies, practices, and discourses that shape the meanings, conceptions, and lived experiences of children and childhood; as well as how they shape adulthood. Our primary concern will be exploring children’s experiences of intersecting systems of inequality (class, race, gender, sexuality, and ability) in order to participate in current debates concerning children and childhood. The course will allow students to explore how children’s perspectives, heretofore marginalized, can challenge fundamental assumptions of the social world and nourish the imagining of alternative arrangements. This course is fulfills UCC area 4 and is Writing Intensive. Prerequisite(s): Students must complete 15 credits of area 1-3 before registering for UCC area 4. Cross Listed Course(s): WGS 3800, CDSJ 3800, ANTH 3800
Credits: 3.0