SOWK104-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

Youth Realities

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

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.

Course Administrator

Maria-Victoria Perez Y Perez

Contact Person

Maria-Victoria Perez Y Perez

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Online Post 09 Mar 2012 10%
Reflective Essay 1 23 Mar 2012 20%
Reflective Essay 2 11 May 2012 30%
Take-Home Test 01 Jun 2012 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, Notes and Resources

Course readings and resources will be available on LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $619.00

International fee $2,688.00

* 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 .

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