**Date**:May 23, 2025

**Location**: Brantford, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Liberal Arts

**Department**: Youth and Children's Studies

**Campus**: Brantford

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9609

**Position Title**: YC310 BR - Adoption: Past and Present (Fall 2025)

**Term**: Fall 2025 (September 1 - December 31)

**Days/Times**: Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30AM - 12:50PM

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3 per week/36 total

**Type of Course**: In-class

**Anticipated Class Size**: 80

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on**: May 26, 2025

**Posting ends**: June 9, 2025

**Position Summary**: An interdisciplinary course which analyzes the origins and evolution of adoption. At the centre of the course will be considerations of young people's lives in institutional care, foster care, and domestic international adoption. The course will pay close attention to child welfare policy and how understandings of race, class, gender, sexuality, poverty and citizenship affect adoption practices and perceptions of family.

**Qualifications - Required**: MA

**Qualifications - Discipline**: Children and Youth Studies, Cultural Studies, English, History, Psychology, Sociology

**Qualifications -Other**:MA with advanced doctoral training. Previous university teaching experience in a similar course and refereed publications in the area preferred.

**Application Deadline**: June 9, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
**Required for All Applicants
- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of Highest Degree

Optional
- Cover Letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Danielle Law

**To Apply**:
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