HSRV104-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

Youth Realities

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

Description

The course introduces students to the diverse realities of youth with a focus on youth in multiple contexts. Students will explore issues that place youth outside the margins of dominant society that often increases the level of prejudice and discrimination against them. Throughout the course students will engage in current debates within five key sections: Transgressing masculinities and femininities; Embodied identity; Youth technologies, spaces and things; Negotiating sexualities; Missing youth rights. Each of these sections will introduce diverse youth perspectives, issues, challenges and debates, and encourages students to critically consider the responses, models, theoretical frameworks used in youth work and human service sectors in general.

The course introduces students to the diverse realities of youth with a focus on youth in multiple contexts. Students will explore issues that place youth outside the margins of dominant/traditional societal expectations/structures, which often increase the levels of prejudice and discrimination against them. Throughout the course students will engage in current debates within five key sections: Transgressing masculinities and femininities; Embodied identity; Youth technologies, spaces and things; Negotiating sexualities; Missing youth rights. Each of these sections will introduce diverse youth perspectives, issues, challenges and debates, and encourages students to critically consider the responses, models, theoretical frameworks used in youth studies and human services.

The inclusion of guest practitioners in specialist areas as well as current research from staff and postgraduate students ensures that the course is “cutting edge”: It offers a comprehensive overview of the significant issues experienced by youth.

Learning Outcomes

  • To foster students’ ability to think critically and to carry out independent research and writing
  • Develop knowledge of the ideas, concepts, and theories used to understand youth in a context of change
  • Enable students to critically consider and reflect upon the complexities of and tensions for youth directed services

Course Coordinator

Maria-Victoria Perez Y Perez

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Online Post 10%
Reflective Essay 1 20%
Reflective Essay 2 30%
Take-Home Test 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

White, R. D. , Wyn, Johanna; Youth & society : exploring the social dynamics of youth experience ; 2nd ed; Oxford University Press, 2008.

Course readings and resources will be available on LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $644.00

International fee $2,800.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All HSRV104 Occurrences

  • HSRV104-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013