2) This 3-credit online course will examine prevailing issues pertaining to and youth human rights, within the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This course will explore promotion of the convention as well as protection, provision, and participation rights. This course will assist in preparing students to work effectively with children, youth, and families by increasing knowledge and skills of human rights advocacy and considering implications for professional practice and policy in Canada. Edmonton AB University of COMM 597: This course moves beyond tackling Graduate Program Syllabus provided Dr. Cindy Alberta Advocacy and the symptoms of social disadvantage in Communications from the summer Blackstock, Communications to addressing systemic factors within and Technology 2013 version of Associate in Change an applied social public policy the course (the professor Resistant context. Based on two decades of title has since Settings. experience trying to address the been changed). causal factors that disadvantage First The course is Nations children, this course running again in provides a framework for social Winter 2014, and public policy change within resistant students can environments when resources and access the public policy experience are webpage for the limited. The role of values, moral program's courage, communication and proper elective courses. problem definition that engages a Students can wide variety of stakeholders are access the 2014 stressed as critical components to syllabus on that effective social movement strategies. webpage once it is posted. Prince George University of Family/Child Will be offered in Graeme BC Northern Welfare Policy; 2013 (Many McSweeny Child Welfare courses are
2) This 3-credit online course will examine prevailing issues pertaining to and youth human rights, within the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This course will explore promotion of the convention as well as protection, provision, and participation rights. This course will assist in preparing students to work effectively with children, youth, and families by increasing knowledge and skills of human rights advocacy and considering implications for professional practice and policy in Canada. Edmonton AB University of Alberta COMM 597: Advocacy and Communications in Change Resistant Settings. This course moves beyond tackling the symptoms of social disadvantage to addressing systemic factors within an applied social public policy context. Based on two decades of experience trying to address the causal factors that disadvantage First Nations children, this course provides a framework for social public policy change within resistant environments when resources and public policy experience are limited. The role of values, moral courage, communication and proper problem definition that engages a wide variety of stakeholders are stressed as critical components to effective social movement strategies. Graduate Program in Communications and Technology Syllabus provided from the summer 2013 version of the course (the title has since been changed). The course is running again in Winter 2014, and students can access the webpage for the program's elective courses. Students can access the 2014 syllabus on that webpage once it is posted. Dr. Cindy Blackstock, Associate professor Prince George BC University of Northern Family/Child Welfare Policy; Child Welfare Will be offered in 2013 (Many courses are Graeme McSweeny
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