Minor Children’s Rights Minor

Jeehye Kang, Coordinator

This interdisciplinary minor is focused on the exploration of child rights within and across diverse disciplines and in the U.S. and internationally. This perspective challenges approaches in the various disciplines that have in their study of children traditionally denied or failed to recognize children’s human rights and dignity. In place of the traditional perspectives, courses in this interdisciplinary minor frame the study of children within the larger framework of human rights, more specifically, children’s rights and status as a group within society in social science research and theory, literature, the arts, humanities, education, counseling, law and public policy.

Requirements

Course options are as follows:

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select four of the following.		12
COMM 427	Children's Communication Theory and Research
CRJS/SOC 403	Violence in the World of Children
CRJS/SOC 408	Children's Rights and the Law
HMSV 448	Interventions and Advocacy with Children
PSYC 351	Child Psychology
SOC 402	Sociology of Child Welfare
TLED 476	Practical Applications in the World of Children
Total Credit Hours		12

The children's rights interdisciplinary minor requires 12 credit hours of 300/400-level courses selected from at least two different disciplines with a maximum of six credits from any one discipline.  For completion of the interdisciplinary minor, students must have a minimum overall cumulative grade point average of 2.00 in all courses specified as a requirement for the minor exclusive of lower-level courses and prerequisite courses.  At least six hours of 300/400 upper-level courses must be taken through courses offered by Old Dominion University.  Three credit hours may be in the major, if a major course is listed as an option for the interdisciplinary minor.  As such, it will be credited toward both the major and the interdisciplinary minor.