CHST 3401 - Community Collaboration with Children, Youth and Families

Credit(s): 6
Lecture Hour(s): 5, 6
Other Hour(s): 35, 5
Other Hours Schedule Type: Field Work

This interdisciplinary course will focus on the development of community-based projects in a diverse socio-cultural setting where students will learn alongside children, youth, and families. Students will develop skills related to needs assessment, planning and enacting projects, and program evaluation. Students will explore theories and practices of leadership, team building, managing change and collaboration with others. Intercultural and interpersonal communication will be nurtured. 

The course will be delivered using experiential learning principles, acknowledged as critical for excellence in undergraduate education. Experiential learning means learning from experience or learning by doing. This approach involves immersing learners in an experience and reflecting about the experience in order to develop new skills and new ways of thinking. Experiential learning endeavours to make connections between learning and the real world and for learners may demand self-discovery, purposeful endeavour, reflection, meaningful relationships, and venturing beyond ones’ established comfort zone.

Prerequisite(s): ELCC 1104  or CYCC 1132  or one of GNED 1301  or GNED 1303 , or approval of the department.
GNED Cluster 3 - Tier 3