Disability Studies

Disability studies is an interdisciplinary minor, offering a broad liberal arts approach to the study of disability.  The undergraduate Disability Studies Minor provides students with knowledge of the historical, social, artistic, literary, legal, educational, philosophical, and political framing of disability.  Students develop a strong interdisciplinary foundation, with emphasis on cultural constructions of disability, and the intersections of disability, race, gender, sex, age, class and other markers of diversity and difference.  Students have the opportunity to enhance this foundation by extending their learning into the community through the senior capstone internship and/or independent research requirement.

Requirements for the DST Minor

18 Hours Total:  The foundation course, no more than two additional courses at the 100-200 level, and the capstone experience.

Foundation Course

DST/EDP 272:  Introduction to Disability Studies (3) (MPF)

100-200 Level Courses (Choose no more than two)

DST/SPA 104: Ableism 101-A Focus on Communication (3)

DST/ENG 169:  (Dis)Ability Identity and the AMerican Imagination (3) (MPF).  CAS-B:  Humanities

DST/EDP/SOC/WMS 278:  Women and (Dis)ability (3) CAS-C:  Social Science

DST/SPA 211:  Deaf Culture and Community (3) (MPF)

DST/SPA 233:  Variations of the Human Face (3) (MPT)

DST/COM 247:  Rhetoric of Disability Rights (3) CAS-B:  Humanities

300-400 Level Courses

DST/ENG 329:  Disability Poetics and Narrative Theory (3) CAS-B:  Humanities

DST/GTY 335:  Disability and Aging

DST/SPA 348:  Images and Myths of Deafness (3)

DST/EDP/SOC/WMS 375:  Allies and Activists (3) CAS-C:  Social Science

DST/WMS/EDP/SOC 378:  Media Illusions:  Creations of "The Disabled Identity" CAS-C:  Social Science

Capstone Course (3 Hours)

DST/COM/ENG/SOC/SPA 494 or EDP 489:  Capstone in Disability Studies (3) (MPC)

For advice regarding this minor please contact the CDA for Sociology, Dr. Marty Jendrek