SOC 385 - Childhood and Society

Units: 4; Breadth Area: Social Justice

Examines childhood relating to social/political issues: the social/historical construction of childhood, and race, class, gender and other social factors that intersect with childhood experiences; emerging efforts to make education, health care and immigration processes more equitable for all children.

Prerequisites: SOC 100.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Students will be able to communicate different ideas and perspectives on socio-historical shifts in the treatment of children while keeping an open mind about perspectives other than their own.
Students will learn how social location (race, ethnicity, gender, citizenship) influence micro level experiences of and macro level policies that govern the treatment of children in the past and in the present.
Through exposure to empirical and theoretical scholarship, students will learn to identify and integrate academic perspectives on various topics related to childhood.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.