Proseminar 1 (3 credits) – required for all doctoral students in the first year of study
56:163:501
Monday/Wednesday 4:20 – 5:40 pm
Dr. Meredith Bak
This two-semester course provides an overview of paradigms and critical issues in Childhood Studies. Researchers from within the University and around the area present the latest research on children.
Childhood and Violence (3 credits) 56:163:600
Monday 6:00-8:50 pm
Dr. Anthony Wright
This course will explore an interdisciplinary range of texts focused on childhood, youth, and various forms of violence that shape young bodies and lives. Following the work of medical anthropologists, students will approach violence not as an aberration from social order, but rather as a constitutive condition of it. Social orders are forged and maintained through violence—from spectacular forms of physical brutality to subtle forms of psychological violence. Sites of violence to be explored include: colonial and post-colonial governments; national school systems; global markets; war and other international conflicts, etc.
Critical Disability Methods (3 credits) 56:163:692
Tuesday 6:00-8:50 pm
Dr. Naomi Fair
This course will introduce students to the foundations of Critical Disability Studies and its application within the field of Childhood Studies. We will center critical intersectional theoretical and conceptual frameworks and the perspectives of disabled scholars and activists to explore multiple modes of inquiry, pedagogy, and practice that shape Disability Studies. We will pay close attention to how disability is historically, politically, culturally, and socially constructed and considered a natural and desirable part of human variation and identity. We will ground our learning in the principles of disability justice and identify pathways to apply this learning within and beyond the university.