Welcome
to the History of Childhood!
Description
This
course will consider the place children occupied in society and the
way people have thought about children and childhood from antiquity
through the twentieth century in Europe, the United States, and in
non-Western societies. It will look at child-rearing practices, the
concept and practice of parenting, the problem of childhood disease
and mortality, the education of children, the development of private
and state-based programs for improving children’s lives, the ways in
which the experience of childhood have been recalled, and the ways
historians have attempted to reconstruct the history of the child.
Goals
-- students will be able to
- identify and discuss the major
issues in the history of childhood from antiquity to the 20th
century
- evaluate their importance and
relate them to present-day patterns and events
- read and discuss primary texts
documenting childhood experience and memory, and present them
orally to the group
- present evidence of their
attentive reading and listening in essays written during the semester in a final
essay exam
Grades
are based on --
|
Three
(weekly) essays (500-700 words each) |
30% |
|
Daily
(13) 3-question
quizzes |
40% |
|
Oral
presentations |
10% |
|
Participation |
10% |
|
Final
Exam |
10% |
