Disability Studies

Course Code: 
SOWK2007

This course will identify the ways in which differently-abled persons are marginalized and restricted and experience discrimination within an "un-adaptive" society.  It will exmanine the interaction of persons with disabilities within the existing political, social and cultural and legal systems.  This course is taught in partnership with persons with disabilities and is grounded in th epistemological belief that the creation of knowledge about disability should be with/by people with disabilities.  This course will take students on an interesting journey which begins with sensitization to the experience of disability, explores along the pathways of acceptance and inclusion and arrives at the destination of policy and advocacy.

Semester: 
Semester 1
Pre-Requisites: 
SOCI1001 (or PSYC1005/ PSYC1006) & SOCI1002
Department: 
Sociology, Psychology and Social Work