IPE 360. Perspectives of Disabilities: A Disabilities Studies Overview

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This course is designed to raise awareness and knowledge by introducing students to the contexts of disability through an interdisciplinary exploration of the lives of disabled people, their families and their communities. Students are introduced to a variety of factors that impact the social and cultural constructs of disability. Students will examine and debate their own and others’ perceptions of, and behavior towards disabled persons. Finally, students will identify how disability is conceptualized differently in varied contexts and analyze how disability fits within contemporary discourse of a global society.