EPSY 199

Spring 2010

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46232
Lecture-Discussion
DE
1:00PM -3:50PM
W
385 Education Building
Espelage, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/19/10-05/05/10
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
title: Bullying, Sexual Harassment, Dating Violence in Childhood/Adolescence. 3 hours. Why is it that children/adolescents cannot just get along? Why is being respectful something that has to be taught at every turn of child development? Why do children chose to humiliate, embarrass, and terrorize one another rather than encouraging and supporting one another? These are questions that will be addressed in detail in this class. The premise of the course is that bullying and peer victimization is a social problem and a societal problem, which is associated with aggression across the lifespan. In this course, national and international research on the prevalence of aggression among children/adolescents will be reviewed. Research will be discussed related to the following aspects of youth aggression: definitional challenges (what is bullying?), cultural differences (subcultures within US, differences across countries), and causes of youth aggression (focus on social-ecological explanations, including personality, family, peer, and committee factors). Research! indicates that children and adolescents are becoming numb to disrespect and this serves to only create a serious social problem. This disrespect does not go away when our students are handed their high school diploma, these attitudes and behaviors are taken into dating relationships, work environments, familial contexts, and into community settings. The last third of the course will include readings related to school- and community-based prevention programs. These programs include teacher's manuals and activity workbooks, classroom-based curriculum, and school-wide efforts. Students will participate in a systematic evaluation of these programs. This evaluation will focus on how bullying was defined, how sexual harassment was defined, and how other types of aggression were discussed. Students will come away from this class being introduced to materials of each program and will take part in some activities from each program. Evaluation data will also be summarized for the programs. First year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to students with Freshman class standing.
Restricted to First Time Freshman students.
52940
Lecture-Discussion
LBS
3:00PM -5:50PM
W
236 Wohlers Hall
Spanierman, L
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/19/10-05/05/10
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Whiteness and the University
Section Info:
Given the recent surge of multicultural initiatives on college campuses, predominantly white universities are developing programs to enhance campus climate for all students. To reduce racism and improve race relations on campus, white students must begin to explore what it means to be white and how their whiteness affects campus climate. Due to the normativity and invisibility of whiteness most white students rarely (if ever) think about their race and its implications. Thus, this course offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary critical whiteness studies literature and addresses concepts such as white privilege, white racial identity development, and white anti-racism. As part of the Ethnography of the University Initiative, the course also focuses on various qualitative research methods that scholars use in the empirical investigation of whiteness. Throughout the semester, we will consider the ways in which the various content and methods may apply to understanding whiteness at predominantly white universities in general, and to the Illinois experience, in particular. � First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. � Ethnography of the University Initiative � Click on the following link for instructor information: http://education.illinois.edu/EDPSY/frp/lbspan
Restriction(s):
Restricted to students with Freshman class standing.
Restricted to First Time Freshman students.
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