Welcome to the Childhood Studies Program

The Department of Childhood Studies puts the issues, concepts and debates that surround the study of children and childhoods at the center of its research and teaching missions. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the Department of Childhood Studies aims both to theorize and historicize the figure of the Child and to situate the study of children and childhoods within contemporary cultural and global contexts.

The curriculum in the Department is multidisciplinary in scope and purpose and provides students with a strong background in both humanistic and social science perspectives on children and their representations. This approach will prepare students for careers in many areas including academics, public policy, social services, youth programming, and education.

NEW FACULTY @ CHILDHOOD STUDIES DEPARTMENT

August 2009. The Department of Childhood Studies welcomes its newest faculty members, Dr. Susan Miller and Dr. Lauren Silver. Please introduce yourself to them and make them feel at home at Rutgers-Camden. Dr. Charles Watters, another new CS faculty member, will join the Department for the spring semester in January 2010.