Critical Disability: A Youth Studies Perspective

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Critical Disability: A Youth Studies Perspective

This course will examine the historical and contemporary views of disability and explore the ways that people with disability are forced to navigate a world designed for able bodied people. With a focus on how dis/ability intersects with race, socio-economic status and gender, this course seeks to reframe the traditional deficit-based narrative of disabilities. Using Critical Disability (DisCrit) as a theoretical framework, this course aims to dismantle and reconstruct commonly held beliefs about those who have been labeled disabled to foster a strength-based mindset in adults who plan to work with youth. While students will be steeped in history and theory, they will also explore best practices for how to incorporate universal design into youth programs.

Offer as needed

Undergraduate

Yes

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