Master's Degree - Youth Development

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This course examines cultural context factors that affect youth from a holistic perspective within and outside the family unit. The course provides understanding of the cultural heritage of differing family structures and types. Students explore social and educational processes experienced by youth; this exploration includes through in-depth reading, writing, discussion, critical listening, viewing of contemporary videos, and informal interviews with youth. Students are encouraged to think critically about society and culture, to gain further knowledge of how ethnic groups fit historically into society, and to examine the results of how history has shaped the current cultural climate of the U.S.

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Meghan Gillette
Office: 515-294-7050
meghang@iastate.edu

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

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Youth Studies: Fundamental Issues and Debates
James Côté
Edition: 2014
ISBN: 978-0230368453
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
B.D. Tatum
Edition: 2017
ISBN: 978-0465060689
Publisher: Basic Books

The Young are Making Their World: Essays on the Power of Youth Culture
Yuya Kiuchi and Francisco A. Villarruel
Edition: 2016
ISBN: 978-0786498840
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
Edition: 7th edition, 2020
ISBN: 978-1433832161
Publisher: American Psychological Association

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Canvas at ISU

 

In the three weeks prior to the start of class, students will receive course information and access instructions via email from the Iowa State campus coordinators:

Katie Mott for Dietetics, ECEMS, FFP, Gerontology, and Youth Development
Callie Gitch for Community Development, Swine Science, Food Safety, Agriculture Mechanization, and Quantitative Genetics & Genomics

The email will include instructions for how students can set-up their Iowa State Net-ID and password which is needed to log into Iowa State’s Canvas system. It typically takes 1-2 business days after setting up a Net-ID before students can log into Iowa State’s Canvas. Courses may not be visible in Canvas until the first day of class.

If students experience problems registering for a Net-ID, they can contact the Iowa State Solution Center for assistance at 515-294-4000. Students will need their 9-digit ISU university ID (provided in the ISU campus coordinator email) for the Solution Center to assist them. The Solution Center is open evenings and weekends.  View the Solution Center's hours of operation.

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This course does not require an exam proctor.

This course does not include synchronous components.