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Childhood and Family Relations

Childhood and Family Relations Courses
 
020200291a/b-296a/b310a/b311F/G391a/b-396a/b410F/G
411a/b412F/G491a/b-496a/b

Childhood and Family Relations 020, Introduction to Childhood and Family Relations.
Description: An overview of the perspectives on childhood and family found in the various disciplines constituting the Childhood and Family Relations program. Childhood is emphasized to complement the more adult focussed material in the other courses.
3 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
(King's)
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Childhood and Family Relations 200, Contemporary Perspectives on Childhood and Family Relations.
Description: The course focuses on recent approaches to studying childhood and their possible implications for a variety of settings such as families, child care organizations and educational institutions.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the second year of the Childhood and Family Relations Program or permission of the Dean's Office.
3 lecture hours, 1.0 course.
(King's)
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Childhood and Family Relations 291a/b-296a/b, Special Topics in Childhood and Family Relations.
Description: Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
Prerequisite(s): CFR 020 or permission of the CFR Program Coordinator.
3 lecture/tutorial hours, 0.5 course.
(King's)
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Childhood and Family Relations 310a/b, Representing Childhood Empirically.
Description: 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.
Prerequisite(s): CFR 200 or permission of the CFR Program Coordinator.
3 lecture/tutorial hours, 0.5 course.
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Childhood and Family Relations 311F/G, Case Studies in Empirical Representations of Childhood.
Description: An analysis of the presentation of childhood in specific research studies. Each student will be responsible for a detailed examination of a specific study in accordance with the considerations developed in CFR 310a/b.
Prerequisite(s): CFR 310a/b or permission of the CFR Program Coordinator.
3 lecture/tutorial hours, 0.5 course.
(King's)
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Childhood and Family Relations 391a/b-396a/b, Special Topics in Childhood and Family Relations.
Description: Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
Prerequisite(s): CFR 020 or permission of the CFR Program Coordinator.
3 lecture/tutorial hours, 0.5 course.
(King's)
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Childhood and Family Relations 410F/G, Independent Study in Childhood and Family Relations
Description: Reading and discussion of selected topics in Childhood and Family Relations.
Prerequisite(s): Must be in the 4th year of the CFR Honors program.
3 hours (reading course), 0.5 course.
(King's)
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Childhood and Family Relations 411a/b, Emerging Perspectives in Childhood Studies
Description: An examination of emerging cross-disciplinary presentations of childhood such as the social structural child; the socially constructed child; the tribal child; the minority rights child; the bilateral family; and the bio-structural child. Particular attention is paid to how different perspectives present the connections among human agency, social structures, and biological structures.
Prerequisite(s): CFR 311F/G or permission of the CFR Program Coordinator.
3 lecture/tutorial hours, 0.5 course.
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Childhood and Family Relations 412F/G, Applying Childhood Perspectives
Description: A selective examination of the relationships among the various emerging childhood perspectives in different academic disciplines and in policy and advocacy forums.
Prerequisite(s): CFR 411a/b or permission of the CFR Program Coordinator.
3 lecture/tutorial hours, 0.5 course.
(King's)
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Childhood and Family Relations 491a/b-496a/b, Special Topics in Childhood and Family Relations.
Description: Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
Prerequisite(s): CFR 020 or permission of the CFR Program Coordinator.
3 lecture/tutorial hours, 0.5 course.
(King's)
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