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Program Requirements
Note: University regulations apply to all students at Laurier. If there is any discrepancy between the program or progression requirements outlined on this page and those in the university's academic calendars, the academic calendars are the official sources of information. The information below is from the latest calendar, and you may be following progression requirements from an earlier calendar. Students are responsible for checking the appropriate calendar. Contact your program coordinator should you notice any discrepancies.
If you are a Youth and Children’s Studies major at Laurier Brantford, Foundations courses are part of your program requirements. You cannot graduate without finishing the four Foundations courses. Senior-level Youth and Children’s courses may hold you accountable for the material covered in these courses, so it is recommended that you complete all four courses by the end of your second year.
Because the following two courses will help you the most in the Youth and Children’s Studies program, we strongly recommend that you complete them in your first year. They will also be useful in relation to preparing for or drawing upon the course content of YC100.
- BF290: Academic Literacy: Social Sciences and BF299: Academic Literacy: Humanities: Youth and Children’s Studies in an interdisciplinary program which draws upon texts and research methods from the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. These two courses will help you read more carefully, analyze texts more precisely, discern and form better arguments, and write clearer, sharper, better organized essays.
The following two courses, to be taken in your second year or earlier, will make you a better scholar, and can help you better engage any course you take. They are an especially good fit to take in the same year as YC200.
- BF190: Modernity and the Contemporary World and BF199: Critiques of Modernity: These two courses will help you contextualize the discussions that you will encounter in your Youth and Children’s Studies classes, and will give you the intellectual background to form stronger arguments. The material in these courses will particularly enrich your understanding of the theories and political movements that shaped understandings of childhood and the experiences of children and youth.