Childhood and Social Institutions

The CSI is a cross disciplinary, limited enrollment program designed to provide students with a useful academic foundation in the subject matter. The program combines the new insights from recent studies of childhood and families in today's society with the best of the more established perspectives to offer a timely, comprehensive and responsive academic experience.

The CSI program is structured to enable and encourage students to combine it with other areas of study. CSI may be taken as an Area of Concentration (3-year BA), as an Honors BA, or as part of an approved Combined Honors program.

The CSI program will be of interest to people planning professional or academic careers in:

family law
social policy
social program development (in either government or social service agencies)
social work
clinical work with families or children
education
journalism
human resource management
early childhood education
or an academic career in a humanities or social science discipline with a emphasis on childhood and family studies.

Topics covered in the program include:

history of families and childhood
changing images of children and families
changing family structures
family interaction
family formation and breakdown
child development
childhood socialization
children's social worlds
peer relations
families and work
family and child poverty
families and communities
politics and families
families and the legal system
family and childhood social policy

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