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P8702 Child and family policy I
Year-long seminar on child and family policy designed for students who
already have some background in U.S. social policy and, preferably,
either child development or child policy as well. Team-taught by
faculty members from the schools of Social Work and Public Health and
Teachers College, bringing together health, education, and social work
perspectives and involving special guest lecturers for selected
sessions. First semester stresses the varying approaches taken to child
policy by different social and behavioral sciences (history, sociology,
demography, economics, political science, and developmental
psychology), family law, as well as a cross-national perspective. Ends
with three sessions on social problem situations involving children and
their families that is addressed from the perspective of different
disciplines. Second semester focuses on specific child and family
policy domains, the current major research developments in each domain,
and the relevant policy debate-again from a multidisciplinary
perspective.
3 points
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