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Childhood and Children in the World (HIST 275)

Term: 2020-2021 Academic Year Fall Term

Schedule

Tue-Thu, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM (8/25/2020 - 12/16/2020) Location: TL LNGH 233

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This course offers students a unique, child-centric perspective on the past and present. They learn to historicize the idea of childhood and see our current, Western understanding of what it means to be a child in its proper context. On the basis of this new understanding, students examine a numbr of international issues, putting children at their center. We study children in wartime, as they are vitimized in genocide and