Course information | 500 Connecting with Youth and Young Adults (CHC DL) S1 2025

Henderson Campus

3 Smythe Road
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Henderson
Auckland 0650
New Zealand

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Christchurch Campus

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Papanui
Christchurch 8053
New Zealand

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Distance Learning

3 Smythe Road, Henderson
Private Bag 93104
Henderson
Auckland 0650
New Zealand

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Laidlaw Website

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Welcome

17 February - 23 February

Laidlaw Orientation at all Campuses

Timetables and Textbooks (on the Laidlaw website)

24 February - 2 March

Module 1 Video: CADO, Assessments, Missionaries to Youth Culture

Introduction, CADO &amp; Assessments, Missionaries to Youth and Young Adult Culture

Assessment 1 Video

Assessment 2 Video

Assessment 3 Video

Ko wai koe? Who are you?

Vanhoozer Reading

Assessment One Readings

3 March - 9 March

Module 2 Intro Video: What's a Youth? Youth Culture and Generation Z

Class Notes: What's a Youth?

G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence: Brilliance and Nonsense

Class Notes: Youth Culture

Class Notes: Generation Z

McCrindle Infograph 2019

McCrindle Infograph 2016

Global Youth Culture - OneHope

Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on the Emerging Generations

Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on the Emerging Generations (copy)

Understanding Generation Z: Recruiting, Training and Leading the Next Generation

What We Know About Gen Z - OneHope

10 March - 16 March

Module 3 Video

Class Notes: Introducing Emerging Adulthood

Reading: Jeffery Arnett Emerging Adults 2000

Class Notes: What's it like to be an Emerging Adult?

Emerging Adult Essay: Between “Being” and “Having”: How Faith and Charity Changed My Life

Class Notes: Yo-Pro's and learning from the workplace

Optional: Article Readings about Gen Z in the Workplace

Secondary Schools Education and Learning Outcomes

17 March - 23 March

Module 4 Video

(Self-Directed) Class Notes: Consumerism and Identity

(Self-Directed) Class Notes: Technology and Identity

24 March - 30 March

Module 5 Video

Class Notes: Post-Christianity

Class Notes: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

Reading: Faith Formation in a Secular Age

Class Notes: Engaging with Belief

Youth Ministry Personal Reflection (15% LO:1,2,4)

31 March - 6 April

Module 6 Video

Class Notes: Expressive Individualism Explained

Class Notes: Expressive Individualism Assessed

Is modern Western culture a health hazard? Richard Eckersley

7 April - 13 April

Module 7 Video

Class Notes: Hope

Class Notes: Nostalgia

READING: Nostalgia, Gen Z, and the Return of History by Sam Burrows

Class Notes: Secular Salvations

28 April - 4 May

Module 8 Video

Class Notes: Post-Modernity

Has the Incarnational Model been a theologically helpful influence on youth ministry?

Dean and Foster from programmes to people

Class Notes: Polarization

RESOURCE: Mosaic Cards - Creating Cohesion Through Conversation

Article: Selling the 'Fantasy': Why Young Western Women Would Join ISIS

Interview and Report (35% LO:3,4)

Ethics Form for Interview (Assessment 2)

5 May - 11 May

Module 9 Video

Class Notes: Technology

Class Notes: Information

Class Notes: Technology &amp; Information Meets Human Development

The Teenage Brain Explained - SciShow

Is Social Media Hurting Your Mental Health? - Bailey Parnell

Teen Brain - Nathan Wallis

Online Harassment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Fight The New Drug

Teens Explained | Live with James Beck and Petra Bagust

12 May - 18 May

Module 10 Video

Introduction, CADO & Assessments, Missionaries to Youth and Young Adult Culture

Class Notes: Technology & Information Meets Human Development

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) – causes, symptoms & treatment – by Osmosis (5:32)