The Minor in Disability Studies provides students from other programs with an opportunity to engage with new understandings and scholarship in critical disability studies as it intersects in a multitude of contexts, across silos and disciplines. However, students are required to take a foundational course first, one that is designed to encourage them to look my deeply for the hidden structures and processes that produce disability.
The Disability Studies Minor is not available to Disability Studies program students.
To receive the Minor, a student must complete six (6) courses from the following curriculum:
One* (1) of the following:
Plus five (5) of the following:
| DST 502 |
Disability and the State |
| DST 503 |
Current Topics in Disability I |
| DST 504 |
Mad People's History |
| DST 506 |
Making Ontario Accessible |
| DST 525 |
Rethinking Images of Embodied Difference |
| DST 603 |
Disability and The Law |
| DST 604 |
Current Topics in Disability II |
| DST 613 |
Strategies for Community Building |
| DST 614 |
Community Access and Technology |
| DST 725 |
The Politics and Practice of Interventions |
| DST 726† |
Leadership in Human Services (or DST 727 Leadership for Social Action) |
| INT 921 |
Writing for Disability Activism |
| PHL 507 |
Ethics and Disability |
*DST 501, INT 902 and SWP 921 are antirequisites of each other, therefore only one is acceptable.
†DST 726 and DST 727 are antirequisites of each other, therefore only one is acceptable.
