Disability Studies 1010A/B - Exploring Disability

Explores provocative ethical and practical Disability Studies topics using a Liberal Arts framework. Students actively engage both sides of cases with legal, medical, and recreational significance. Examines how disability, mental health and neuro-diversity intersect with modern culture and social institutions.
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Disability Studies 2201A/B - Rethinking Disability

Disability Studies challenges the historical, medical and mainstream views of disability and mental illness as personal tragedies or solely problems to be fixed. We explore diverse approaches to imagining disability, changes over time, and associated symbolic and material outcomes.
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Disability Studies 2202A/B - Understanding Disability Labels

Learn how common disability and neuro-diversity conditions are defined and resourced. Understand the complex nature and tacit assumptions of diagnostic contexts and care systems, past and present. Consider both the empowering and constraining bio-political implications of medical labelling for individuals and groups.
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Disability Studies 2210A/B - Education and Disability Studies

Learn about current and past frameworks for exceptional learners in education. Examine common systemic tensions between: macro-social policies and individualized learning plans, inclusion and specialized supports, universal design and quality, and how families navigate accessibility and relationships amidst limited resources and neoliberalism.
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Disability Studies 2211A/B - Disability Art, Sport and Leisure

Explore the dynamic, constructive forums that people with disability are involved in across arts, sports and leisure. These areas are crucial spheres of self-expression, sociability, integration and contribution. Examine cases and research ranging from the Paralympics to fine arts.
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Disability Studies 2216A/B - Disability, Media and Madness

Examine cultural contexts and attitudes that produce diverse, evolving representations of disability and normalcy in private reflections and public media (news, policies, memoirs, arts, social media) by care professionals, law, state, church and family. Students critique existing media representations and work on constructive alternatives.
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Disability Studies 2290A/B-2296A/B - Special Topics in Disability Studies

Topic and course description will be available at time of registration.
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Disability Studies 3310F/G - Bioethical Controversies

Learn how disability and neuro-diversity inform and challenge key philosophical and bioethical questions around: personhood, citizenship and rights, the good life and who deserves to live (neo-eugenics, euthanasia), inter-dependency, ethics of care, fragility, and roles the state plays in disabling citizens.
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Disability Studies 3311F/G - Changing Contexts and Practices

Introduces students to key innovations in leadership, rights, laws, policy and practices in the human services and modern disability sector. Research and cases highlight the tensions and possibilities between conceptual ideals and the constraints of practice.
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Disability Studies 3320F/G - Narratives of Disability and Care

Explore the significance and influence of disability and mental health on family and care relationships over the life course. The course combines a Disability Studies lens with narrative, care and kinship concepts. Through written stories, we examine mutuality, discontinuity and creativity in relationships.
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