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  Camden Undergraduate Catalog 2013–2015 Liberal Arts Colleges Programs, Faculty, and Courses Childhood Studies 163 Major Requirements  

Major Requirements


Bachelor of Arts Program Requirements (36 credits)

The childhood studies curriculum requires that in addition to the Introduction to Childhood Studies and the Senior Seminar, students will complete coursework in three content and/or skills areas:  Childhood in Global and Intercultural Contexts (6 credits), Childhood and Social Institutions (3 credits), and Methods in Childhood Studies (6 credits). In addition, childhood studies majors will take 15 credits of electives from a wide variety of courses that span many different departments, including (but not limited to) psychology, sociology, English, history, and criminal justice.

Core Program Requirements for the 2010 curriculum (36 credits)

a) Required Courses (21 credits)

Introduction to Childhood Studies (3 credits)

(i) Introduction to Childhood Studies (163:101)

Children in Global and Intercultural Contexts (6 credits)

(ii) Children and Migration (163:370) or Youth Identities and Urban Ecology (163:383)

and History of Youth (163:320) or Youth in a New Nation (163:325) or Children's Books and Illustrations (163:360) or Literature of Childhood (350:360) or Young Adult Literature (163:361)

Childhood and Social Institutions (3 credits)

(iii) Urban Education (163:382) or Service Learning in Childhood Studies (163:481/491)

Methods in Childhood Studies (6 credits)

(iv) Statistics (830:250 or 960:183 or 960:283) and Understanding Childhood through Statistics (163:460)

Senior Seminar (3 credits)

    (v) Senior Seminar (163:480)

b) Elective Courses (15 credits)

Elective coursework must be on topics related to children and childhood. Elective coursework should range across disciplines and not be confined to one department. Courses of interest that may be applied to a minor in childhood studies include any childhood studies course (all 163 numbers) and the following courses:

(i) Any childhood studies course not counted above

(ii) A variety of upper-level courses (300 +) on topics related to children or childhood, including, but not limited to

  • Juvenile Justice (202:322)
  • Family Ethics (840:340)
  • Sociology of the Family (920:306)
  • Psychology of Childhood (830:226)
  • Psychology of Adolescence (830:326)
  • Childhood and Culture (070:308)
  • Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence (920:323)
  • Educational Psychology (830:301)
  • Family and Gender in Historical Perspectives (512:371)
  • American Child in Literature (352:347)
  • Literary Constructions of Childhood (350:361)
  • Children's Literature in Print and Film (350:362)

For questions pertaining to the childhood studies major or minor, please contact the Department of Childhood Studies (856-225-6741) for an adviser.


 
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