rcm-ga,
Thanks for an interesting question.
I've identified eighteen college-level courses (and some closely
related materials) that are currently being offered -- or have
recently been offered -- throughout Canada.
I believe this is a fairly comprehensive list:
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http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2005/CDs/CYC/566.html
University of Victoria
CYC 566
Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Units: 1.5
This course examines the history of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, its relation to other human rights frameworks, and its use
as an advocacy tool by professionals working with children and youth.
Students will synthesize and apply this information through practice
involving children, youth, and families. Examples of the application
of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in various cultures and
countries will be used to build advocacy strategies at the individual
and system level.
http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2005/CDs/CYC/365.html
University of Victoria
CYC 365
Theory and Practice of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0
Participants in this course will increase their knowledge, skills, and
self-awareness on the theory and application of the UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child. Students use a "hands on" approach to
understand and apply the Convention. Students learn about the
Convention and its relation to the Canadian Human Rights Framework,
understand the role of international agencies, national, provincial,
municipal, and treaty bodies in implementing the convention, and
synthesize and apply this understanding through practice with
children, families, cultures, and communities. A case study approach
is used to critically examine the impact of this document across a
range of program settings for children and families.
http://www.law.utoronto.ca/content_tr.asp?profile=36&perpage=141&cType=facMembers&itemPath=
University of Toronto
Course: Law of Forced Migration
This course begins with an exploration of forced migration as a
phenomenon independent from the legal categories into which migrants
are placed. It then proceeds to an examination of the national and
international legal regimes that define and govern refugees and, to a
lesser extent, internally displaced persons (IDPs). The course will
survey international, regional and domestic institutions and
instruments, and will engage with the issues on a policy,
jurisprudential and theoretical level. Students will be expected to
participate actively in class discussion. This may include
presentation of course material or other in-class activities.
Observation of a refugee hearing and/or judicial review application
may also be required.
LAWS, TREATIES, OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty_content.asp?docNo=569&itemPath=1/10/0/0/0&cType=coursespg
University of Toronto
CHILDREN AND THE LAW (LAW303H1S)
This seminar will examine the ways in which our legal system deals
with children. This topic is one which has taken on increasing
importance in light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
Children, to which Canada is a signatory, and of the equality
guarantee in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which
protects against discrimination on the basis of age. Issues of the
appropriate treatment of children and the extent to which differences
between adults and children may be legitimately taken into account are
being raised in new ways within our legal system. Some time will be
spent at the beginning of the course dealing with the social concepts
of childhood on which our laws draw and the unique challenges of
conceptualizing children's rights given limitations on children's
capacities. Attention will be paid first to the distinction between
rights to protection and rights to autonomy and second to role of
parents in any concept of children's rights and the competing values
of state protection of children's rights and values of family autonomy
and privacy. Against the backdrop of the rights recognized by the U.N.
Convention on the Rights of the Child the course will then deal with a
series of specific topics having to do with children which may
include: custody and access determinations; adoption; the role of race
and culture in child placement decisions; determination of parentage;
child abuse and child protection law; medical decisions about
children; educational decisions; children in the immigration system,
and young offenders legislation. In dealing with these topics
attention will be paid to children's right to participate in decision
making, including the related issues of the role of children's lawyers
and children's evidence.
http://www.ryerson.ca/cycp/reqcourses.html
Ryerson University
CYC602: Children's Rights
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is examined.
The convention is explored within the framework of human rights
principles and citizenship. Policy and and practice implications will
be considered through the lens of a child rights approach.
Consideration will be given to understanding children's development as
'citizens' and children's participation society.
http://www.carleton.ca/ssw/course%20outlines/Summer%202004/chitrasekhar-CourseOutline-revised-May4.final.htm
Carleton University, School of Social Work Course
Outline SOWK 4703A: Children caught in conflict -Their rights and
survival in the security conscious world The course aims to bring to
the attention of the students the status of children and their
struggles for survival and claims to their rights in the post 9/11
world. Under the broader theme there will be three sub components:
rights, status and programming. The first component, rights, focuses
on the UN Convention on the rights of the child in general and certain
rights in particular with special focus on children in armed
conflicts. The second component examines the status of children caught
in the aftermath of 9/11, and specifically the children of the US,
Afghanistan and Iraq. The third component deals with effective
rehabilitation programs for children in conflict zones and some best
practices. This third segment helps to transform the knowledge base to
a program oriented skills base. Taken together, these three components
will provide a base for understanding the world as it relates to
children in the current socio-political context.
While there is a prescribed text book for this course, students are
encouraged to stay informed of current affairs around the globe
through reading of newspapers, television, the Internet etc. Efforts
are being made to bring in the resources and expertise of the Child
Protection branch of the Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA), the National Children's Alliance of Canada and the Canadian
Peace Coordinating Committee.
http://www.uccb.ca/politicalscience/outlines/POLS395.htm
Cape Breton University Department of Political Science
POLS 395 Outline Children's Rights
This course is designed for those with a particular interest in the
rights of children and youth in Canada. The course uses a
multi-disciplinary approach, suitable for those with a background or
interest in psychology, political science/law, social work, or a
related discipline. The course uses the UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child as a framework and point of departure. Focusing on Canada,
it examines policy and legal developments and related psychological
research in the following areas: (1) provision rights (e.g., health
care, education, (2) protection rights (e.g., from abuse, neglect,
exploitation), and (3) participation rights (e.g., in families,
schools,). The course will examine the implications of the UN
Convention in each of these areas and in relation to relevant
psychological literature.
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~cburton/2P47_outline_2004_winter.html
Brock University
POLI2P47 Rights Across Borders
Current issues in application, verification
Websites students should read: Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.unicef.org/croc/
http://www.tru.ca/socialwork/bsw/outlines/358.htm
University College of the Cariboo
SOCW 358-01: LEGAL SKILLS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS
Legal Skills for Social Service Professionals is a skills based course
focusing on the development of legal skills so that you can practice
responsibly and ethically as you carry out your statutory authority in
a variety of settings such as child protection, probation and youth
work, parole, family court counselling and mental health. Students
must have completed SOCW 357, Law, Social Work and Social Policy,
prior to taking this course. SOCW 357 focused on the understanding
the law and its institutions that govern social service programs. It
also addressed the impacts of the law and the legal system on those in
our society who are the most vulnerable. In this course, students will
learn and demonstrate skills related to the various mandates that
govern their work as professionals in the social services.
Required Readings Ministry of Supply and Services Canada (1989). UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
[this appears to be an advanced-level high school class, but I
included it for your information]
http://olc.lakefieldcs.on.ca/SocialSci/CHV1O.nsf/5f78f7e68f1c4d30852565960008af71/aff0d9c6f719d8fc85256be300657506?OpenDocument&Click=
Lakefield College School
CHV1O Course of Study for Civics 9
This course explores what it means to be an informed, participating
citizen in a democratic society. Students will learn about the
elements of democracy and the meaning of democratic citizenship in
local, national, and global contexts. In addition, students will learn
about social change, examine decision-making processes in Canada,
explore their own and others' beliefs and perspectives on civics
questions, and learn how to think and act critically and creatively
about public issues
By the end of the course, students will:
...summarize the rights and responsibilities of citizenship within the
global context, as based on an analysis of the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and Convention on the
Rights of the Child (1989);
http://www.gprc.ab.ca/pdf/outlines/CD2130_JHOWES_W04.pdf
GRANDE PRAIRIE REGIONAL COLLEGE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
CD2130 PERSPECTIVES AND OPTIONS IN CHILD CARE
This course includes an exploration of historical influences on
contemporary programme models and on current attitudes towards day
care services. The focus of this course is day care legislation and
policy at provincial and national levels and current issues, which
influence these. Students will explore the different types of
childcare options and subsidy available to families. Developmentally
appropriate practices and program options for school age children are
examined.
[course research options include this source]: Canadian Coalition for
the Rights of Children is a collective voice for Canadian
organizations and youth concerned with the rights of children as
outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
and the World Summit for Children Declaration.
http://www.rightsofchildren.ca/
http://oia.uvic.ca/oia/servlets/viewRecord.jsp?table=ca.uvic.oia.dbTables.feature&id=19
University of Victoria
Children's Rights
The Institute for Child Rights and Development (ICRD) is a
project-funded division of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) at the
University of Victoria. ICRD was founded in 1994 by Dr. Philip Cook,
in order to promote and monitor children's rights through research and
education based primarily on the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child (CRC). This is the most successful ratified human rights treaty
in history, with 191 countries having ratified or being signatory to
it. The only UN member nation not party to this agreement is Somalia.
http://www.heinbecker.ca/Course/Fall2004/recommendedreading.html
Laurier Centre for Global Relations
Governance and Policy PO691d/ PO497x
Foreign Policy, Canada, the US and the UN: Multilateral Cooperation in
a Single Super-Power World
[Course includes reading and discussion on the Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRC)]
[This is not a course, per se, but I thought it would be of particular
interest just the same]
http://discovery.uccb.ns.ca/children/images/uploads/Final%20Grade%206%20Curriculum.pdf
University College of Cape Breton
Children's Rights Center
Children's Rights Education Curriculum Resource
http://osgoode.yorku.ca/myosgood2.nsf/0/12FA2A3F49023B7A85256FFF0050582E/$FILE/11-coursedescriptions.pdf
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
Children and the Law: Advanced Issues (5230.03)
This seminar will be devoted to an analysis of the legal rights and
regulation of children. Building upon issues and materials addressed
in Family Law I and Children and the Law LW 2910, this seminar will be
organized into three major parts: (1) Children and Childhood in
Context: this part of the seminar will introduce theoretical and
interdisciplinary perspectives and materials which address the
changing images, experiences and legal significance of childhood in
Canada. (2) Select legal issues of particular relevance to children or
childhood (e.g. custody and access issues in Family Law, guardianship
and children's property in Trusts and Estate Law, Adoption, Child
Protection, capacity, consent, etc.). (3) Current and emerging issues
for law reform, legal advocacy and the legal system (e.g. cross
cultural, race, and gender issues; the rights of children who are the
product of assisted human reproduction legal responses to child
poverty; the relevance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights
of the Child , ethical issues in legal representation, and other
challenges in advocacy (e.g. duty to report child abuse, etc.)
(particularly as these are addressed through the Office of the
Children's Lawyer).
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/etg/speirs/child_syllabus.htm
McGILL UNIVERSITY School of Social Work
407-611A Out-of-home Care for Children and Adolescents
Readings:
The U. N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/baik/Law339c%20course_syllabus%202004.htm
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Law 339c 001 Human Rights in Asia
Required readings: Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://butler.ac.brocku.ca/webcal/2004/undergrad/courses/CHYS.html
Brock University
Child and Youth Studies Courses
CHYS 3P28 Policies of Childhood and Youth
The Rights of the Child Canadian and global initiatives in child
provision, child protection and child participation before and after
the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://www.ucfv.ca/calendar/2003_04/pdf%20versions/06A-CourseDescrip.pdf
University College of the Fraser Valley
CRIM210 Youth Crime and the Youth Justice System in Canada
The course provides students with an analysis of the nature,
prevalence, characteristics, and consequences of youth crime in
Canada. It offers an overview of the political, social, legal, and
criminological issues associated with youth crime in Canada. The
historical development of Canada's juvenile justice and child
protection systems is examined as well as the legal framework
established by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. That statute is
reviewed in detail and in relation to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child and various other international human rights standards. The
objectives pursued by the youth criminal justice system are examined
in relation to prevailing scientific and popular explanations of
juvenile deviance and delinquency. The relative effectiveness of the
youth justice system in preventing and responding to youth crime is
also considered.
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There are other University-level resources -- books, articles, etc --
that showed up in the course of my research, and you can see them
(along with above courses) listed in the search results, here:
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-20%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=intitle%3Auniversity+OR+intitle%3Acollege+OR+intitle%3Acourse+OR+intitle%3Aclass+OR+intitle%3Acurriculum+%22Convention+on+the+Rights+of+the+Child%22+site%3Aca&btnG=Search
These are the results of the search I conducted, which is described
more fully below.
I trust this information fully answers your question.
However, please don't rate this answer until you have everything you
need. If there's anything more I can do for you, just post a Request
for Clarification, and I'm happy to assist you further.
pafalafa-ga
search strategy -- Google search on:
[ intitle:university OR intitle:college OR intitle:course OR
intitle:class OR intitle:curriculum "Convention on the Rights of the
Child" site:ca ]
P.S. Let me know if you'd like any additional explanation of the
search strategy I used. |
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