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Family Supports and Community Practice Minor
Minor in
Family Supports and Community Practice
Revised 2016-2017.
The Minor in Family Supports and Community Practice is designed to focus on the theme of the Family in Community Context and the methodology of Interdisciplinary Practice.
Administered by: School of Early Childhood Studies and the School of Nutrition
To receive this Minor, students must complete six (6) courses from the following curriculum:
Required course (1):
| CLD 435 | Theory and Practice of Family Support |
Plus five (5) of the following*:
| CLD 332 | Families in Canadian Context II |
| CLD 447 | Equity Issues in Ontario ECE |
| CLD 448 | Childhood in a Global Context |
| CLD 449 | Research in ECE Lab Schools |
| CYC 800 | Intensive In-Home Family Support |
| FNP 400 | Professional Practice: Placement |
| (or DST 99A/B** Applied Community Project/Thesis) | |
| FNY 403 | Food Security Concepts and Principles |
| INT 900 | Program Planning and Evaluation Strategies |
| (or CYC 705 Special Topics: Program Evaluation) | |
| INT 901 | Gerontology: Critical Issues and Future Trends |
| INT 902 | Disability Issues |
| (or DST 501 Rethinking Disability) | |
| INT 904 | Health Promotion and Community Development |
| INT 905 | Conflict Resolution in Community Services |
| INT 906 | Sexuality: Power and Pleasure |
| (or FNF 400 The Social Context of Human Sexuality) | |
| INT 907 | Team Work for Community Services |
| INT 908 | Homelessness in Canadian Society |
| INT 910 | First Nations Issues |
| INT 911 | International Community Development |
| INT 912 | Community Development: International Field Experience |
| POL 106 | The Politics of Human Needs |
| POL 501 | Women, Power and Politics |
| POL 511 | Well-being and Opportunity in Canada |
| SOC 108 | Indigenous Peoples and Decolonization |
| SOC 203 | Social Class and Inequality |
| SOC 501 | Making a Living: Sociology of Work |
| SOC 502 | Violence and the Family |
| (or SWP 923 Family Violence) | |
| SOC 507 | Race and Ethnicity in Canadian Society |
| SOC 603 | Sociology of Gender |
| SOC 605 | Families: Difference and Diversity |
| SOC 606 | Work and Families in the 21st Century |
| SOC 701 | Social Change: Canadian Perspectives |
| SOC 703 | Women, Power and the Global South |
| SWP 435 | Aboriginal Approaches to Social Work |
* Early Childhood Studies students may take a maximum of two CLD-prefix courses from the elective list.
** DST 99A/B is a multi-term course that will be credited only as a single-term course towards the Minor.
Please see (PDF file) Senate Policy 148 for further information about Minors.
