GOOGLE SEARCH

UWINNIPEG DIRECTORY MAPS BROWSER

• Welcome
  • Student Information
  • Registration Information
  • FAQs
  • Contact Us
  • On-line Survey
• WebAdvisor
• Information Technology
  • General Information
  • ITPAC
  • Contract Training
  • Exclusive Offerings
  • Full-time Programs
    • Aboriginal Information
      & Communications
      Technologies Diploma
    • Internet Systems Specialist
  • Part-time Programs
    • Business Systems Analyst
    • Info Assurance & Security
    • Internet Site Administration
    • Network Security
    • Serious Games Certificate
    • Web Design
    • Web Development
  • Strategic Partners
• Professional Studies
  • General Information
  • Custom Programs
  • Full-time Programs
    • Human Resource Management
    • Project Management
    • Public Relations & Marketing
  • Part-time Programs
    • Management
    • Human Resource Management
    • Public Relations
    • Project Management
    • Marketing Management
    • Leadership in Childhood Care
    • Arts and Cultural Management
    • Career Development Practitioner
  • Professional Designations
  • Professional Edge
  • Schulich Programs
    • Masters Certificate
      in Project Management
    • Masters Certificate
      in Business Analysis
    • Prince 2 - Project
      Management Certification
  • Dewey College
    Human Resource
    Management Diploma Program
• Educational Assistant
  • General Information
  • Full-time EADP
  • Part-time EADP
• Community Programs
  • General Information
  • Indigenous Police
    Preparation Diploma
  • International Languages
  • Introduction to University
  • 55 Plus
• Textbooks
• Brochures
  • Program Brochures
  • Timetable
• Back to UWinnipeg

• The University of Winnipeg
  Div. of Continuing Education
  Buhler Centre
  460 Portage Avenue
  Winnipeg, MB R3C 0E8
  204.982.6633
  
  Mailing Address
  University of Winnipeg
  Div. of Continuing Education
  515 Portage Avenue
  Winnipeg, MB Canada R3B 2E9
  

Professional Studies

The Child, Family and Social Policy

DEV 3100 (36 hours)

Delivered at the U of W main campus

Core course: Advanced Diploma in Leadership in Early Childhood Care and Education

Objective

• To sensitize students to the social policy and legal dimension of child development and to the values society places on children

   Outcomes

• Analysis of political climate and key trends surrounding ECE, and identification of principal Canadian and Manitoban social policies as they relate to children and families
• Knowledge of key issues regarding the law and rights of children and families including poverty, housing, special-needs children, Internet exploitation of children, divorce, adoption, foster care, work/family balance
• Evaluation of flaws in various social policy initiatives and discussion of direction for potential solutions