Intro to Disability Studies: Disability and Technology

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Course Description

For a long time, disability studies has focused on the past, early representations of people with disabilities and histories of the movement for disability rights. This course turns toward the future, looking at activism and speculative fiction as critical vehicles for change. Drawing on fiction by Samuel Beckett, Muriel Rukeyser, and Octavia Butler, this course will address the question of the future through an interrogation of the relationship between disability and technology, including assistive technology, genetic testing, organ transplantation.

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Grading Basis

ROP - Letter or Credit/No Credit

Min

5

Max

5

Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?

No

Course Component

Discussion

Enrollment Optional?

Yes

Course Component

Lecture

Enrollment Optional?

No

This course has been approved for the following WAYS

Aesthetic and Interpretive Inquiry (AII), Exploring Difference and Power (EDP)

Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?

No

Programs

HUMBIO178A is a completion requirement for:
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