Faculty First Year Seminars 191PSY1 - Framing Difference: Media

This seminar invites students to look beyond the screen and ask how social media, TV, movies, and documentary films shape what we think we know about disability and neurodiversity. Why are disabled characters so often framed as inspirational, tragic, villainous, or "quirky"? Who gets to tell these stories, and what changes when disabled actors, writers, producers, and filmmakers are involved? Students will explore key concepts in disability studies by examining how media reflects, reinforces, and reshapes cultural understandings of difference.

First-year (R1ST)