Youth Studies Minor
Who are youth?
What do you think about youth?
Why this interest and concern in youth?
Consider a commitment to youth!
A minor that explores youth
as an idea,
as persons,
as an age group,
and as a life stage -
seeking to understand their everyday lives and study the ways
communities respond to them.
This minor builds on the work done over thirty years by the Center for Youth Development & Research and the Youth Studies Program at the School of Social Work, College of Education + Human Development.
Minor Information:
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Begin with:
YOST 1001: Seeing Youth, Thinking Youth: Media, Popular Media & Scholarship (3 cr)
Use of your life-experience, news, and popular media to explore ideas about the everyday realities of being a young person. How this varies by age, social class, race/ethnicity, geography, time period, sexual orientation, capacity and the like. -
Choose 13 3xxx and/or 4xxx level
Youth Studies elective
credits.
In consultation with the Undergraduate Advisor - This minor requires 16 total credits.
For further information, please contact:
Cindy Pavlowski
Undergraduate Advisor
190A Peters Hall
School of Social Work
College of Education and Human Development
612-624-4290
pavlo002@umn.edu