This course explores the principles, methods, and materials for working with children from birth to 12 using mathematics and digital literacy in an integrated and inclusive curriculum. Students will participate in activities to develop the practical and theoretical skills required to support children's development. The focus will be on developing the skills and understandings to be critically reflective of pedagogical practices in the areas of mathematics and digital media.

This field placement seminar is designed to support students in integrating practical skills and knowledge in community settings. This course focuses on developing a solid foundation for professional practice with children, families, communities, and colleagues in community settings. The seminar allows students to discuss experiences from their field placement and reflect on them with other students. Full-day kindergarten or other academic school settings are not eligible for this placement.

Policies and practices related to children's mental health are critically analyzed. Different classification systems for understanding and defining children's behaviours are studied. The application of evidence-based practices for intervention and program planning are considered. Collaboration with members of inter-professional teams from a culturally competent strengths-based perspective is explored.

Community organizations, service providers, residents, governments, and large institutions work together to enhance child, family, and community services. Students will be introduced to social work, public health, policy development, education, child development, and early intervention disciplines to explore the possibilities of inter-professional practice. Students will identify resources and gaps in community services and opportunities for professional collaboration.

In response to the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, this course provides students with an introduction to the values, beliefs, and practices that shape the cultural identity of Canada's Indigenous peoples. The marginalizing intergenerational effects of historical colonization and contemporary issues of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples in Canada are examined. The individual and collective responsibility for reconciliation with Indigenous children, families, communities, and colleagues is emphasized.

Students will investigate the ways the brain functions, changes over time, and responds to both environmental and genetic factors. Connections between the continuum of development of cognitive skills and the contexts that they develop will be explored. Students will examine the link between early adversity, brain development, and gene expression with the goal of leveraging the science of brain development to support their professional practice. This course will expand on topics that have been introduced in previous development courses such as self-regulation, executive functioning, memory, attention, and learning.

This course will familiarize students with the research process. Students will come to understand the many decisions they need to make to develop a research project. To this end, this course will provide students with practical understanding of research methodologies relevant to the human services field. Topics secondary to the research process such as time management, personal motivation, organization, identifying the audience, writing conventions, and formatting will be discussed. Students will also learn about research ethics.

This course is designed to familiarize students with the purpose, function, and rationale for care collaboration. The skills associated with practitioner roles in service delivery by child and family agencies are explored. Students examine a variety of delivery models in human services and ways to address practitioner self-care and compassion fatigue. Students will explore their own biases and beliefs in order to enhance cultural competence in working with diverse families.

This work term will provide students with a college-approved work experience focussing on early child development and/or the integration of services and programs focusing on the child, the family and the community. In this course, students will apply skills learned in the academic setting as well as gain new workplace skills. Students will interact with industry professionals while developing and expanding their critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills in a professional work environment. Through the work experience, students will gain an understanding of workplace accountabilities for their role, the role of team members and leaders in the workplace. The work experience will also provide the student with a variety of situations and opportunities to further develop their listening and communication skills, both oral and written, as pertinent to the job function and industry requirements.

This course is designed for students to learn to identify children affected by stress, trauma and/or violence and to effectively support them. Students will learn about the signs and symptoms of stress and trauma and how stress, violence, and trauma affect children's learning, cognitive brain development, and social-emotional development. The short and long term consequences of being exposed to stress, trauma, or violence, as well as the social and family causes, will be considered. Central to this course is the examination of resilience and the strategies that may be used to meet child and family needs.

As future practitioners poised to work in pluralistic contexts, it is important to gain understanding of global perspectives about children and childhood. This course will focus on the significance of sociocultural-historical circumstances and the impact that local values, beliefs, and practices have upon children, families, communities, and colleagues. At the same time, the influence globalization plays in creating a normalizing discourse about children and childhood is critically examined.

This course will focus on the successful completion of an applied research project. Students' research will be conducted under the supervision of faculty. Students will collect and evaluate data to make recommendations and draw conclusions on the basis of the analysis of the research findings. Students will be required to present their findings to representatives in the field.

Students will gain understanding of the nature of funding for universal and targeted programs (at the federal, provincial, and municipal government levels) that address the needs of a wide range of families. Empirical research, government documents, and other publications are examined. Students will examine the evolution of principles and theories of family support connected to service delivery. Contextually relevant programs for families with complex service needs will be explored.