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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

C I 3554 - Investigating the Past and Present through the Experiences of Children (3)


When Offered: Fall; Spring
Students will strengthen their own content knowledge as well as develop perspectives on events children and young adolescents have experienced in the past and the present. Students will explore and compare experiences of how children around the world lived in the past and how children live today. Using children’s literature, primary and secondary sources, and current events, students will investigate the resilience of young people experiencing war, oppression, natural disaster, and other hardships both in the past and in the present. Students will conduct a service project directed toward children who are experiencing major challenges such as social injustice, poverty, or natural disaster.