Please visit the Disability Studies website for more information: https://disabilitystudies.washington.edu/DS_courses
A-Term
DIS ST / HSTCMP 402 & 502 Topics in Disability History
Instructor: Joanne Woiak, jwoiak@uw.edu
A-term
Hybrid learning: Class meets T/W/Th 1:50-4:00pm online and on campus. This course can be completed remotely and asynchronously.
Topic: “Devices & Designs: Histories of (In)Accessible America.” We’ll study the histories of disability activist movements, medicine and technology in the lives of disabled and Deaf people, material culture, and accessible design. Books: Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (2020), and Bess Williamson, Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design (2019).
Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1643330
Full-Term
DIS ST 332 B (SLN 11110) Disability and Society
Instructor: Jason Naranjo, jnaranjo@uw.edu
Full-term
Hybrid learning: In person class meetings will be organized around service learning in the community, at parks and other outdoor recreation spaces in Seattle for five to seven days June 20–August 18. Online seminar meetings will happen from 12pm-2pm on 06.23, 07.21, & 08.04.
Topic: “Access & Inclusion in Outdoor Recreation.” Through service learning, academic texts, and contemporary media we will explore the following areas of study: a) access & barriers to inclusive play and recreation, b) allyship and social change, and c) the importance of outdoor play and recreation across the lifespan. This course will be taught through a partnership with the Outdoors for All Foundation: https://outdoorsforall.org/
B-Term
DIS ST 360 (SLN 14143) Redesigning Humanity: Disability in Speculative Fiction
Instructor: Joanne Woiak, jwoiak@uw.edu
B-term
Distance Learning: Tues & Wed class meetings 1:50-4:00pm on Zoom; no meetings on Mon & Thurs; course can be completed entirely asynchronously.
Course description: Disabled, BIPOC, and multiply marginalized activist-artists in the speculative fiction (SF) genre produce worlds that “write ourselves into the future,” as visionary author Octavia Butler puts it. This course will analyze SF short stories, films, and novels that use speculative settings and nonrealist conventions to comment on current political, social, and ethical concerns focusing on disability and race. Books: Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, and Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts.
Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1655790
DIS ST 332 A (SLN 11109) Disability and Society
Instructor: Jason Naranjo, jnaranjo@uw.edu
B-term
Hybrid Learning: First class meeting will be in-person. Most of the following class meetings will be online via Zoom.
Topic: “Disability Studies in Education.” This course provides a place to examine history, theory, values, and assumptions about disability in the contexts of schools and society. We will focus on the following areas of inquiry, a) historical and theoretical foundations for defining disability, b) disability in the context of public schooling, c) the relationship between disability, social change, and equitable access to opportunity.