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Academic Year 2004/2005

Anthropology of Childhood: Race, Class and Gender in the Construction of Contemporary Childhoods
ANTH 260 FA

This course will examine childhood as a culturally and historically specific category and examine contemporary transformations in childhood both globally and in the U.S. We will study both the experiences of children and the construction of the category of childhood through school, work, consumer culture and daily life. We will examine how race, gender and class influence the experiences of children and shape our understandings of childhood itself. Although we will focus on the diversity of children¿s experiences in the contemporary U.S., we will also draw on comparisons with Japan, Brazil and South Africa to understand links between domestic and international transformations in childhood. We will study both how children act as active agents of cultural production and how adults and institutions or socialization shape the lives of young people and the construction of childhood. In order to foreground the experiences of children, we will read both ethnographies of childhood and read, watch and listen to the cultural productions of children themselves.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ANTH    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Tilton,Jennifer R.   

Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM;     Location: FISK302;

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 35)

SR. major: 4   Jr. major: 4

SR. non-major: 4   Jr. non-major: 4   SO: 4   FR: 0

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Writing, Focused Inquiry Course

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005

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