Bachelors in Disability Studies

The Disability Studies minor provides a space to explore questions such as these: how has disability been defined in various historical moments, in various cultures and eras While impairment has unquestionably been a frequent experience throughout human history, has disability the construction of impairment as a generic social category been a historical constant, or is it a modern invention What social ideologies, cultural systems, and societal arrangements have shaped the meaning and experience of disability How has disability been defined or represented in cultural and artistic productions, public laws and policies, modern professional practices, and everyday life