ANTH 353 - Childhood and Culture

Description:
Cross-cultural comparison of children’s lives in different societies. Exploration of developmental paradigms and comparison of ideas about what childhood is and how children become competent in different societies.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Students will be able to:

Demonstrate understanding of concepts that influence cultural understandings of childhood, such as culture, ethnocentrism, human universals, cultural relativism.
Identify cultural assumptions about children and childhood as evidenced in ethnographic writing and in their own culture.
Explain and critique at least two Euro-American developmental theories from a cross- cultural perspective.
Demonstrate understanding of political and economic factors that influence the status and role of children in society.
Describe characteristics of U.S. childhood in comparison to other cultures.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/18/13