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Courses taught

  • Health Inequalities Among Youth

    Developed and taught.

    Description: Comparisons of structural and social inequalities in health across Canada and globally. Focus on local, national, and international determinants of health in the lives of children and youth, and how key factors (e.g., national policies, income inequality, household dynamics, global occurrences) impact their development and health outcomes.

  • Child and Adolescent Development

    Developed and taught.

    Description: Examines theories in the area of child and youth development that attempt to account for changes in cognitive, social, and emotional development, and explore how inequitable resources and opportunities (e.g., social and economic factors) can impact development.

  • Reading Course in Child and Youth Studies

    Developed and taught.

    A course of individual study supervised by a faculty member exploring advanced topics in child and youth studies.

    (Topics below)

  • Contemporary Issues in Child and Youth Studies

    Taught.

    Description: Provides a critical perspective on contemporary issues, policy, and practice relating to children and youth. Topics explored include child poverty, immigrant and refugee youth, consumerism, racism, advocacy, sexuality, and gender issues. Students reflect on how the lives of young people are shaped by intersecting social factors.

Previous topics for the reading course |

Previous topics for the reading course |

Reading courses are available for upper year undergraduate students who which to further investigate a special topic that is within the faculty member’s expertise and the faculty member has agreed to supervise. Students have previously worked with Dr. Hammami on the following topics:

Topic 1: Support factors among migrant youth

The student developed an undergraduate thesis with a complete statistical analysis on social support factors among migrant youth in Canada using HBSC data.

Topic 2: Intersectionality and youth health

Readings and discussions revolved around intersectionality in the literature, methods and measurement of intersectionality, public health and policy implications.

Students developed a policy brief throughout the course and presented it to a panel of mock policy and decision makers.