CourseSchedule2

Fall 2010

DATE	ACTIVITY
WEEK ONE August 30-September 3	WEEK ONE
Welcome	Introduction
Lecture	An Ever Lengthening Shadow
Online Primary Source Assignment	Images of Families and Children, 1500-1750
WEEK TWO September 8-10
Lecture	From the Traditional to the Modern Family
Reading Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 1-2 Study Questions
WEEK THREE September 13-17	WEEK THREE
Lecture	Childhood in Early America: Dependence, Virtue & Character, I
Reading Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 3 Study Questions
Lecture	Childhood in Early America: Dependence, Virtue & Character, II
WEEK FOUR September 20-24	WEEK FOUR
Lecture	Age Consciousness and the Sentimentalization of Childhood
Reading Assignment Online Primary Source Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 4 Study Questions Moral Education for Character in Sunday School Literature and the Slave Quarter
Lecture	Growing Up Black, I
WEEK FIVE September 27-October 1	WEEK FIVE
Reading Assignment Online Primary Source Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 5-6 StudyQuestions Growing Up "Red"
Lecture	A More Innocent View of Innnocence: From Sheltered to Scientific Childhood
Lecture	Betwixt and Between: Youth and Adolescence, 1840-1920
WEEK SIX October 4-8	WEEK SIX
Reading Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 7-8 Study Questions
Lecture	Growing Up Poor, I
Reading Assignment	Larcom, entire Study Questions
WEEK SEVEN October 11-15	WEEK SEVEN
Mid Term Examination Preparation	Post Mid Term Exam Questions to Discussion Board
EXAM	MID TERM EXAM
Online Secondary Source Assignment	Making Sense of Oral History, I
WEEK EIGHT October 18-22	WEEK EIGHT
Online Primary Source Assignment	Making Sense of Oral History, II
Lecture	Theories of Childhood: From Hall to Spock
Reading Assignment Online Primary Source Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 9-10 Study Questions Schooling in the Lives of Children and Youth, I & II or Youth in Various Guises
WEEK NINE October 25-29	WEEK NINE
Lecture	Adolescence in Theory & Reality, 1928-1970
Lecture	Making the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood, I
Reading Assignments	Mintz, Ch. 11 Study Questions Glen H. Elder, Jr., John Modell, & Ross D. Parke, "Studying Childen in a Changing World" (see Course Documents) Study Questions
WEEK TEN November 1-5	WEEK TEN
Lecture	Making the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood, II
Online Primary Source Assignment	Demography of Youth, 1920-1950 Growing Up in American Between the Wars
Lecture	Growing Up Poor, II
WEEK ELEVEN November 8-12	WEEK ELEVEN
Reading Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 12-13 Study Questions
Online Primary Source Assignment	Magpie Sings the Great Depression
Lecture	Growing Up in World War II
WEEK TWELVE November 15-19	WEEK TWELVE
Reading Assignment	Baker, entire Study Questions
Lecture	Growing Up Black, II
Reading Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 14-15 Study Questions
WEEK THIRTEEN November 22-24	WEEK THIRTEEN
Reading Assignment	Anne Moody, Parts One &Two Study Questions
Lecture	Youth Rebellions in the 1960s
	THANKSGIVING BREAK
WEEK FOURTEEN November 29-December 3	WEEK FOURTEEN
Reading Assignment	Anne Moody, Parts Three & Four Study Questions
Online Secondary Source Assignment Online Primary source Assignment	Student Protests at Duke University or Read and compare: Excerpts from Greene, Be True to Your School High school activists tell us what they want
Lecture	The College Quest: Growing Up in the Post Modern Age
WEEK FIFTEEN December 6-8	WEEK FIFTEEN
Reading Assignment	Mintz, Ch. 16-17 Study Questions
Review	Review Submit final exam questions to Discussion Board