Perspectives on Disability Studies

DIS STD 101 - Perspectives on Disability Studies

<p>Lecture, one hour; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 101. Creation of critical framework for understanding concept of disability from sampling of disciplinary perspectives. Organized around productive and central tension in disability studies—between disability as lived subjective experience that is both individual and communal, and disability as objective, medical, legal, and sometimes stigmatized category. Students encouraged to make connections between units and to create their own perspectives on disability in field that defines itself by how it changes. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.</p>

Disability Studies

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Disability studies challenges and changes society’s attitudes toward disability by examining the meaning and nature of disability from a variety of perspectives.

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Perspectives on Disability Studies

DIS STD 101W

5 units