Critical Disability Studies Minor Fall 2025 Class Offerings

CSST 345: Unruly Bodies

Kate Drabinski, Lecture TuTh 10-11:15, Fine Arts 011

Drawing on feminist, queer, social, and critical race theory, this course examines the status of the body in both historical and contemporary debates about identity, representation, and politics. We tend to take the body for granted as the ground of experience and knowledge, but this course challenges that common sense, asking how the body is produced, managed, and deployed in various ways to discipline and manage populations. We will also investigate the political possibilities of body work to resist and reshape these same disciplinary practices, paying particular attention to "queer" forms of embodiment. Recommended Preparation: CSST 210, GWST 100, or permission of instructor.

EDUC 388: Inclusion and Instruction

Zoe Fritz, Lecture Mo 4:30-7, Information Technology 241

This course introduces students to strategies for differentiating instruction within general education classrooms. The course examines the legal, philosophical and programmatic underpinnings of instructional inclusion, especially in the areas of reading, writing and math. The course emphasizes approaches for adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of socio-culturally, linguistically, cognitively (e.g., dyslexic, dyscalculic) and behaviorally diverse student populations, including students identified traditionally as having special needs (e.g., gifted and talented, physically challenged). A weekly field experience is required. Department Consent Required

IS 303: Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction

Sidas Saulynas, Lecture Tu 1-2:15, Physics 101, Discussion time varies, Information Technology 237

This course provides a survey of human factors and human computer interaction relevant to the design and use of information systems. It describes the contributions of information systems, computer science, psychology, sociology and engineering to human-computer interaction. Emphasis is placed on human factors theories, human information processing concepts, interaction design approaches and usability evaluation methods. Application areas and current research are also reviewed.Prerequisite: IS 202, IS 300, or IS 300H with a grade of 'C' or better.

AGNG 200: Aging People, Policy and Management

Lauren Price, Lecture TuTh 10-11:15, Physics 201 (Variety of online options)

Based in the life-course perspective, this course blends academic analysis of human aging in social context with more experiential learning, including exposure to literature on older adults, awareness exercises about aging in the news and talking with older adults in and out of class to debunk common myths and stereotypes regarding aging and older adults. Academic content is broadly social, in terms of understanding family and community contexts of aging, the individual experience of aging including productivity, spirituality and typical engagement, normal changes and diseases common in physical and psychological health, and a focus on how society views aging. Finally, students will be encouraged to identify themselves as aging individuals, on a trajectory toward later life.Prerequisite: ENGL 100 with a grade of 'C' or better.

AGNG 440: Diversity in Aging Services

Robin Majeski, Online asynchronous

Providing services to older people involves the diversity of the clients and, increasingly frequently, the diversity of the service provision staff. Including aspects of cultural diversity, socioeconomic diversity, gender diversity and age diversity, this course provides students with information regarding aspects of diversity that may influence the expectations and satisfaction of both groups in the service delivery system. Examples include variations in family systems, expectations about later life and illness, issues related to eligibility for services, and problems of communication and comfort in cross-age, intercultural or interclass interactions.Prerequisite: AGNG 200 with a grade of 'C' or better.

PBHL 350: Public Health Ethics

Andrea Kalfoglou, Lecture TuTh 11:30-12:45, Sondheim 101

This course serves to introduce central concepts and key issues in public health ethics. Students will learn various proposed frameworks for analyzing ethical issues in public health, and how public health ethics differs from traditional medical ethics. Students will use a case-based approach to analyze ethical issues in public health, and practice applying the frameworks to real and fictitious cases through class discussions and written assignments. Recommended Course Preparation: HAPP/SOCY 354; PHIL 350; PHIL/HAPP 355. Prerequisite: PBHL 100 with a grade of 'C' or better.

PBHL 358: Bioethics

Daniel Jenkins, Lecture MoWe 1-2:15, PAHB 229

A survey of the ethical constraints on the practice of medicine, biomedical research using human and nonhuman animals, and the delivery of health care. Specific topics will include doctor-patient confidentiality; autonomy, competence, and medical decision-making; ethical issues at the beginning and end of human life; and controversial biomedical technologies such as cloning and stem cell research. Recommended Preparation: PHIL 150, PHIL 152, HAPP 350. Prerequisite: One PHIL course with a grade of 'C' or better

SOCY 351: Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine
Karon Phillips, Lecture We 7:10-9:40, Public Policy 105

This course explores how health, illness, and the field of medicine are shaped by social and cultural forces. It examines the changing role of physicians and other providers; medicine as a social institution; the nature of healthcare organizations; and the experience of health and illness. Special attention is given to the doctor-patient relationship, and factors that shape individuals' interactions with their health providers, as well as analyzing the role of persistent sociocultural inequalities across health and health care. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or ANTH 211.