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WN 2013
American Culture
AMCULT 103 - First Year Seminar in American Studies
Section 004
Introduction to Disability Studies

Credits: 3
Requirements & Distribution: HU
Other: FYSem
Consent: With permission of instructor.
Advisory Prerequisites: Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor: Mitchell,David Thomas

 

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This course focuses on introducing students to disability studies methods of analysis in U.S. cultural contexts. We will approach disability as an interaction between non-normative bodies, environments, and social attitudes, rather than traditional understandings of disability as dysfunction, pathology, or deviance. Topics will include: eugenics, sexual subcultures, disability rights movements, media representations, medical gate-keeping, independent living, interdependency, aesthetics, minority, social, and cultural models of disability.


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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)

ISBN: 0415630517 The Disability Studies Reader 4th edition (due for release on Jan 27), Author: Lennard Davis (ed.), Publisher: Routledge 4TH 0013
Required

ISBN: 0822351544 Sex and disability, Author: Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, eds., Publisher: Duke University Press
Required

ISBN: 1400032717 The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Author: Mark Haddon., Publisher: Vintage Books 1st Vintag 2008
Required

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