33 courses with the subject DSP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
DSP 101Introduction to Disability Studies3
This course examines the social, historical, cultural, and political construction of disability. Topics of study include disability rights movements, models and theories of disability, disability identity, and disability cultures.
This interdisciplinary course explores connections between disability justice, racial justice, and abolition feminism. We examine calls for prison abolition and deinstitutionalization of disability facilities, considering what steps create futures based on accountability, community healing, and feminist praxis. Additional work for graduate students.
Factors influencing the health & well-being of persons with disability, including models of disability, disability history, law and services, health disparities, health promotion, ethics, violence, and disaster preparedness.
Examines the relationship between deaf and disability studies and explores deafness as both a social construction and an identity. Current and controversial issues in d/Deafness and disability. Additional work required of graduate students.
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the SU academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Representations of disability in autobiographical accounts and professional narratives, and implications of these representations for educational practice and policy.
This course will investigate the intersection of gender and disability and how it impacts such issues as representation/self-representation, art and poetry, illness, education, sexuality, reproduction and motherhood, and caring work.
Explore representations of disability through the analysis of books, movies, television, cartoons, and journalism. It will examine how disability is portrayed by people with and without disabilities, and discuss influences on public perceptions of disability.
A theoretical understanding of disability through the lens of sociology and that of disability studies and demonstrates how cultural institutions shape conceptions of disability in society.
Examinations of the political meanings of human conditions, normality, sexuality, health, and differences from the perspectives of embodied disability and illness. It explores intersectional feminist crip disability studies approaches to violence, injustice, and social changes.
Practical experience in examining how public policy affects the lives of people with disabilities. Open to students admitted to the Disability Studies minor who have completed at least two Disability Studies courses.
This interdisciplinary course explores connections between disability justice, racial justice, and abolition feminism. We examine calls for prison abolition and deinstitutionalization of disability facilities, considering what steps create futures based on accountability, community healing, and feminist praxis. Additional work for graduate students.
DSP 614Critical Issues in Dis/Ability and Inclusion3
Social construction of disability and special education. Disability autobiographies, research literature, parent narratives, legal/policy issues, shifting notions and cultural context of disability, and school and community inclusion. Review of disability classifications as they relate to these issues.
Sociological perspectives on disability treatment approaches, and social policy toward the disabled. Personal and public forms of stereotyping, prejudices, and discrimination.
Trends and issues in Internet technologies and new media that affect people with disabilities. Constructions of ability/disability in mediated contexts.
DSP 652Assistive Technologies for Integrating Students with Special Needs3
Development of integrative technologies and strategies that can be functional in both educational and work environment. Support and adaptation for individuals with physical, educational, and language challenges.
Examines the relationship between deaf and disability studies and explores deafness as both a social construction and an identity. Current and controversial issues in d/Deafness and disability. Additional work required of graduate students.
DSP 678Universal Design and Critical Access Studies3
This interdisciplinary course explores the foundations, principles, and application of Universal Design. Focus on critical examination of the values underlying common approaches to access/accessibility and the methods of achieving access.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar will explore relationships between bodies, land, the state, and the law utilizing recent scholarship in critical race studies, feminist and sexuality studies, disability theories, and indigenous studies.
Interdisciplinary course, explores points of contact and conflict between feminist theory and disability studies. Embodiment, representation, and voice explored from a variety of disciplines and genres.
How gender is culturally constructed in American society with particular reference to education broadly conceived; how race and social class influence gender analysis.
