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Electives in Child & Youth Care

Open to UVic students in any program, these courses let you explore emerging issues, deepen specialized knowledge and gain applied skills to address inequities and support community resilience.

CYC 110

Introduction to Child & Youth Care

CYC 110: Introduction to Child & Youth Care course considers child, youth, family and community well-being from multiple vantage points. It introduces core values and perspectives for practicing child and youth care across diverse settings. Emphasizing relationality, intersectionality, strengths-based and trauma-informed approaches, this course addresses contemporary issues and challenges facing child and youth care practitioners with a focus on conversational, reflexive, collaborative, anti-racist and decolonizing approaches to care.

CYC 120

Lifespan Development

CYC 120: Lifespan Development introduces learners to diverse perspectives and concepts of child and youth wellbeing and development as a basis for praxis with children, youth and families. The course introduces Indigenous perspectives of children’s health, development and wellbeing that focus on holism and Western theories that focus on different domains of development. It promotes critical thinking about child health equity and the relevancy of different perspectives to the health, development and wellbeing of diverse child populations in Canada and global contexts.

CYC 152

Introduction to Helping Skills in Child & Youth Care Practice

CYC 152: Introduction to Helping Skills in Child & Youth Care Practice introduces learners to an applied practice learning environment, anchored in decolonizing praxis discourses, principles of social justice, and the foundational child and youth care helping and communication skills necessary to the development of ethical relationships in professional and therapeutic contexts. Emphasis on critical thinking, reflective engagement and the judicious use of relevant theoretical models helping to facilitate positive engagement with children, youth, families and their communities.

CYC 206

Applying Change Theory in CYC Practice

CYC 206: Applying Change Theory in CYC Practice introduces learners to a range of theoretical frameworks designed to help practitioners work on change processes with children, youth, families and their communities. By critically reflecting on the fundamental assumptions embedded in these change theories, students engage in researching and understanding their own approaches to ethical, decolonizing praxis and integrate a range of strategies into their professional therapeutic relationships.

CYC 250

Law, Indigenous People & the TRC Calls to Action

CYC 250: Law, Indigenous People & the TRC Calls to Action introduces law explored through an Indigenous lens, framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. The course explores pre-colonial, historical and current legal systems and processes that shape the lives and experiences of Indigenous children, youth, families and communities. Learners critically examine contexts and are provided opportunities to practice strategies of allyship, activism and mobilization with Indigenous peoples as well as meaningful practice and engagement pieces that are both decolonizing and ethical.

CYC 423

Research Literacy in Child & Youth Care

CYC 423: Research Literacy in Child & Youth Care introduces students to fundamental research concepts and diverse methods of inquiry to critically engage with research. The course focuses on interpreting and evaluating the strengths, limitations and ethics of research and its mobilization to benefit children, youth, families, communities and the programs that serve them. 

Have questions about electives in Child & Youth Care? Connect with our advising team:

250-721-7984 
cycadvising@uvic.ca