SOC 315 - Introduction to Disability Studies

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: Diversity
An introduction to social, political, and cultural understandings of disability. Topics include models of disability, the social process of disablement, and representations of disability in popular culture.

Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice)
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Distinguish between impairment and the social construction of disability.

2. Draw connections between the social process of disablement and other forms of marginalization using academic and autoethnographic texts.

3. Demonstrate knowledge of prominent models of disability around the world.

4. Analyze how structural and cultural barriers impact the lived experiences of people with impairment through cultural artifacts.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
Diversity Overlay #1: Describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U.S. cultural groups, and the resilience and agency of group members.
Diversity Overlay #2: Identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by U.S. cultural groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures.
Diversity Overlay #3: Analyze the intersection of categories of race and gender as they affect U.S. cultural group members lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities.
Diversity Overlay #4: Recognize the way that multiple differences (including, e.g., gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within U.S. cul