AIP 349 History of Childhood in America: Growing up in the 20th Century (UP)
This course provides students with in-depth information and critical analyses of the history of the conceptualization of childhood in the United States during the 20th century. More specifically, it provides students with information about how infants, toddlers, young children, and adolescents were viewed and treated by society, highlighting how these views radically changed from 1900 to 2000. Examples of issues addressed include child labor, education, children’s place in the family, children as consumer, and children’s changing transitions to adulthood. Students will acquire a body of knowledge about research, practice, and policy that influenced the history and contemporary conceptualizations about child development and childhood during this time period. Students will also gain an understanding about how changing perspectives about children resulted in changes in development and opportunities provided to them.