Care Work: Disability Justice and Health Care

NURSING M172XP - Care Work: Disability Justice and Health Care

<p>(Same as Nursing M172XP.) Seminar, one hour. Corequisite: course M172. Exploration of nature, history, models, and propositions of care, care work, disability, disability justice movement, and health care. Consideration of intersections, interdependence, and complexities of formal and informal care webs and care economies between caregivers and receivers, which includes kin, advocates, disability communities, and health professionals. Use of multi-media, scholarly texts, and theoretical frameworks from disability justice, disability studies, film, gender studies, health, labor studies, law, nursing, and public policy to investigate the concepts of care and care work. Emphasis on community engagement with observational and collaborative interaction and learning in governmental, non-profit, community-based organizations, or health-care networks of disability care. Letter grading.</p>

Disability Studies

Combining rigorous, inclusive pedagogy with opportunities for co-curricular activities—including research, internships, and community engagement—the College provides students with diverse learning experiences that helps them thrive, become critical thinkers, and transform society.

College of Letters and Science

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

General Catalog

Care Work: Disability Justice and Health Care

DIS STD M172XP

3 units