This course explores the interdisciplinary field of Youth Studies, and provides an orientation to the theorists, trends and events from which it is shaped, and which are continuing to shape it. It focuses on the changing constructs of youth and young people and draws upon competing paradigms that have sought to define how these constructs are reinforced and challenged. This course considers youth and young people through disciplinary perspectives (e.g. sociological, biological, psychological) as well as intergenerational, Southern and intercultural lenses. Issues central to the discipline of Youth Studies and critical to the lived lives of young people are introduced and considered.