American Studies 100 - IDEAS IN AMERICAN STUDY

Topics course. Over the last decade or so, an energetic activism around disability (including blindness, deafness, mobility impairments, etc.) has been joined by a rich and varied scholarly discourse exploring embodiment and identity. Disability studies has emerged as an exciting field in which scientific, social, political, cultural and economic factors intersect. This one credit course introduces this field of inquiry through a series of lectures that address disability from the perspectives of social policy, history, literary and artistic representation, and cultural and political theory. May be repeated twice for credit with a different topic. (E)

Topic: Thinking Through Disability.