POLS 2117

Exclusion(s): Unavailable to students with credit for POLS279, POLS395, PSYC279 or PSYC395. This course brings together perspectives from law and public policy and from developmental psychology to study the rights of the child. Using the framework of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, the course examines current Canadian policies and practices in areas such as child poverty, protection from abuse and neglect, child care, and protection from corporal punishment and violence against children.