ICSM Youth in a Changing Society

Course Description: This seminar will examine the impact of structural conditions on the social construction of youth and their experiences with key social institutions such as education, the legal system, and the political sphere from adolescence through the transition into adulthood. Over the course of the semester students will be introduced to theoretical and empirical research in various sociological subfields, social science research methods, and analytic strategies drawn on to answer questions like the ones listed above. We will examine historical trends and modern contemporary issues that affect youths and emerging adults, such as bullying and school violence, mental health, social media, the cost of higher education and student loans, as well as the ways in which youths resist against harmful perceptions and treatment. While our inquiry will be sociologically centered, we will also engage research from a range of academic fields, such as education, history, criminology, and media studies.

Library Session Learning Objectives:

1. Discover Library resources and services and how to ask for help.
2. Evaluate source types (books, scholarly articles, tweets, etc.) and when best to use them.
3. ​Find and access a books and articles using the Library Search. 
4. Generate citations in the Library Search.

For each question, which types of information might you use? 
Be prepared to discuss why you chose particular source types.

Your professor asked you to write a paper on mental health and college students. 

You need a general overview of what mental health is and who are the lead scholars. 

You are looking for current events on students and mental health. 

You need statistics on the mental health concerns of students. 

You’re curious about what it feels like to be depressed.