Recommended Program Electives in Child Studies

February 2010

Recommended Program Electives in Child Studies

The following list of courses has been approved by the Child Studies Coordinator for use as elective

courses in this program. Because courses are added and deleted each year, this list may not include all

courses of interest to our students and may include some courses no longer offered. Students are advised

to check the Undergraduate Calendar and a current class schedule to determine that the courses you want

are available and that all prerequisites have been met. Depending on the courses selected, some students

may have to take courses extra to the degree to meet prerequisite requirements. As well, spaces in some

of theses courses may be limited. Students wishing to get into such courses may apply to the program

Administrator for assistance in registering.

It is possible to take courses that are not on this list. However, such courses will not be applied to the degree program unless or until formally approved by the program Coordinator. If approval is not obtained, such courses will appear on your transcript under the heading, “Extra to the degree”. Students wishing to take courses not on this list should consult with the Coordinator prior to taking the course and must complete the Change of Course Requirements Request Form, providing a rationale for why this course should be included in your program.

First year seminars are not normally accepted for credit in the Child Studies program.

Note: All students in the Child Studies program are encouraged to discuss their elective choices with the program Coordinator and to complete the Selected Program Electives form upon course selection. This form indicates which courses you want to be applied to each category of elective (Arts, Science, and Other Approved). This is particularly important for courses that may be eligible for credit in more than one category.

1. Courses eligible for Arts/PAM elective credit:

ANTH 2040* Anthropology and Gender

ARTH 3601* Women, Art and Society

BUSI 1001*Principles of Financial Accounting
BUSI 1002*Management Accounting

BUSI 4602*Women in Management

CDNS 1000Introduction to Canadian Studies

CDNS 2210*Introduction to the Study of Canadian Culture

CDNS 2300*Critical Nationalism

CDNS 2500*Interfaces between English and French Canadian Cultures

CDNS 3000*Interdisciplinarity and Canadian Studies Theory and Methods

CDNS 3400*Feminists and Feminism in Canada

CDNS 3600*Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Canada

CHST 1000*Childhood in the Global Context

ENGL 2006Children’s Literature
ENGL 2802Canadian Literature

FREN 1002French I

HIST 1300Introduction to Canadian History

HIST 2304Canadian Social History

HIST 2504Introduction to Women’s History

HIST 3107History of the family in Europe

HIST 3115*Youth and History

HIST 3503 Aboriginal Peoples of Canada

HIST 3504Women in North America

HIST 3506* Welfare and Poverty in Canada

HIST 3507*Canadian Immigration from 1875

HIST 3602* Modern Canadian Family

Courses eligible for Arts/PAM elective credit (Continued)

LALS 2603*Child Language

LALS 2604*Speech and Language Problems

LALS 2701*Sociolinguistics

LALS 2704*Bilingualism

LALS 3400 Writing Theories and Practice

LAWS 2003Introduction to Private Law Relationships

LAWS 3006*Mediation

LAWS 3401*Employment Law

LAWS 3804*Law of the Family

LAWS 4001*Law, Family and Gender

LAWS 4904*Advanced Legal Topics

MUSI 1001*A History of Western Classical Music: Medieval to the Present

MUSI 1002*Introduction to the History of Popular Music

MUSI 3302* Music and Gender I

PHIL 1500Contemporary Moral, Social and Religious Issues

RELI 2308*Death and Afterlife

RELI 2550*Religion and Society

RELI 3205* Topics in Women and Religion

SOWK 1000 Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare

SOWK 2201*Working with Children and Youth

WGST 1808Introduction to Women’s Studies

WGST 2800*Critical Intersections of Gender, Race and Class

2. Courses eligible for Science elective credit:

BIOL 1902*Natural History

BIOL 2903*Natural History of Ontario

CHEM 1003*The Chemistry of Food, Health and Drugs

COMP 1001*Introduction to computers for the Arts and Social Sciences

ERTH 1003*Natural Disasters

ERTH 2401*Dinosaurs

ERTH 2402*Climate Change: An Earth Sciences Perspective

ERTH 2403*Introduction of Oceanography

GEOG 1010* Global Environmental Systems

GEOG 1020* People, Places and Environments

PHYS 1901*Planetary Astronomy

TSES 3002*Energy and Sustainability

3. Courses eligible for credit under “Other Approved Electives”:

The courses listed in #1 and #2 above are also eligible in this category. Where a course is eligible for more than one category, the Coordinator will normally apply it towards the more restrictive category. Additional eligible courses for this category include the following.

ANTH 2550* Religion and Society (Also listed as RELI 2550*)

GEOG 3206*Health, Environment and Society

PSYC 2100*Introduction to Social Psychology
PSYC 2200*Biological Foundations of Behaviour

PSYC 2301*Introduction to Health Psychology

PSYC 2600*Introduction to the Study of Personality
PSYC 2700*Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 3000Design and Analysis in Psychological Research

PSYC 3506*Cognitive Development (requires the prerequisite,

PSYC 2500* and PSYC 2700*)

PSYC 3603*Psychology for Women

PSYC 3604*Abnormal Psychology

PSYC 4703Cognition and Instruction

PSYC 4704*Psychology and Language

SOCI 2043* Sociology of the Family

SOCI 2045*Women in Society

SOCI 2200*Canadian Society

SOCI 2445*Sociology of Deviance

SOCI 3003Studies in Research Design and Data Analysis

SOCI 3045* Studies in Children and Childhood

SOCI 3050*Studies in Sociology of Health

Honours Students

By choosing appropriate courses at the 1000- and 2000- level, Honours students can use branching courses to develop a field of interest in Developmental, Sociocultural and Managerial areas. Other fields of interest may be acceptable but must be approved by the program Coordinator. All Honours students should meet with the Coordinator early in their program to discuss their electives. A field of interest must be approved by the Coordinator in order to be eligible to graduate in the Honours program.

Bullets are beside courses typically offered on CUTV (Carleton University Television).

* Denotes a half-credit course