Relevant Courses
The CCYP looks to faciliate interdisciplinary approaches to solving the challenges facing California's childrens and families. Students are encouraged to take courses in a breadth of disciplines to develop the necessary skills to face the complex issues of our times.
Below are a selection of courses being taught by Faculty Affiliates of the CCYP that are aligned with the mission of our work and of relevance to students of different disciplines.
Students may also use the form on this page to search for relevant courses offered at UC Berkeley.
Related Courses Search
Use the form below to search the UC Berkeley General Course Catalog (http://www.berkeley.edu/catalog/) for courses offered by CCYP faculty affiliates or to find courses related to child welfare.
Boalt Law School 281.1 - Sustaining Children and Families: 21st Century Challenges
Professor Joan Heifitz Hollinger
This seminar is intended for students interested in cutting-edge parentage and family law issues and in devising effective legal and socio-cultural strategies to protect and sustain children both within and beyond our borders. Students will be encouraged to undertake an original project that culminates in an 18-20 page paper that may take various forms, including a theoretical or doctrinal analysis, a case study based on empirical research, a well-crafted legislative or policy proposal, a critical assessment of the efficacy of class action litigation aimed at reforming the child welfare system, or a “Brandeis brief” synthesizing the social science research relevant to pending federal court appeals.
Public Policy 270: Kid-First Policy: Family, School, and Community
Professor David Kirp
This seminar appraises the critical policy choices that shape the lives of children and adolescents from birth through high school and beyond. The issues are as varied-and hotly debated by politicians and policy-makers-as banning Coke machines in schools to reduce obesity, regulating teenage abortion, providing universal preschool and helping abused children. Students from across the campus-public policy, education, social welfare, business, sociology, political science, economics-bring different perspectives. Discussions and readings draw on insights from across the policy sciences. Problem-solving is the focus in seminar meetings and research projects.
J219 Journalism for Social Change: Speaker Series and Workshop
Daniel Heimpel of Fostering Media Connections
Journalism for Social Change -- an unprecedented collaboration between the schools of Journalism, Public Policy and Social Welfare -- will focus on foster care, where the causes and effects of policy, social work and the news media play out plainly in the lives of children. This course hopes to provide students with a framework for social change that can be applied to other issues throughout their careers.