RELST-220 Coming of Age
This course presents several case studies of adolescent rites of passage, including the Navajo Kinaaldá puberty ceremony, gender socialization of Hasidic adolescents in Brooklyn, and youth innovation among Latina gang members in Northern California. Students examine ways in which these adolescent girls and boys navigate coming of age through rituals, observances and obligations, and the communities’ policing of adolescent behavior through discourses about childhood, adulthood, and change.
Writing-Intensive (18)
Credits
1
Offered
Spring