RACE AND THE DEVELOPING CHILD

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply developmental frameworks to understand children's conceptions of social worlds with a focus on racial, ethnic, and cultural contexts Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify differences in socialization goals across ethnic and racial groups as well as differences across generational and cultural roots in child socialization Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop sensitivity to the nature and expressions of racial, ethnic, and cultural bias targeting children and youth Audience: Undergraduate 4. Acquire knowledge about cultural assumptions and bias and how various racial, ethnic and cultural (REC) scripts are enacted, and how assumptions, bias, and scripts may be different from those of other REC groups Audience: Undergraduate 5. Gain exposure to Chican@/Latin@ Studies by contextualizing learning with Latinx populations Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply developmental frameworks to understand children's conceptions of social worlds with a focus on racial, ethnic, and cultural contexts Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify differences in socialization goals across ethnic and racial groups as well as differences across generational and cultural roots in child socialization Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop sensitivity to the nature and expressions of racial, ethnic, and cultural bias targeting children and youth Audience: Undergraduate 4. Acquire knowledge about cultural assumptions and bias and how various racial, ethnic and cultural (REC) scripts are enacted, and how assumptions, bias, and scripts may be different from those of other REC groups Audience: Undergraduate 5. Gain exposure to Chican@/Latin@ Studies by contextualizing learning with Latinx populations Audience: Undergraduate