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Minor in Disability Studies

Minors

The Minor in Disability Studies allows students to explore key issues and debates related to disability. Starting from the perspectives of disabled and mad people, courses highlight advocacy, social transformation and equity. Curriculum is intended to build expertise around accessibility, ethics, law, arts, literature, design, technology, health, social care, rights and justice. Students are encouraged to build a minor that complements and extends their discipline.

Administered by: School of Disability Studies

Exclusions: This minor is not available to students in the following programs:

To receive this Minor, students must complete six (6) courses from the following curriculum:

One* (1) of the following:

A minimum of three (3) courses from the following:

  • DST 300 Whose Lives Matter?
  • DST 500† History of Madness or DST 504† Mad People's History
  • DST 502 Disability and the State
  • DST 503 Current Topics in Disability I
  • DST 506 Principles and Practices of Accessibility
  • DST 507** Disability, Justice and Good Human Life or PHL 507** Ethics and Disability
  • DST 508 Cripping the Arts in Canada
  • DST 509 Disability Arts and Culture
  • DST 525 Disability and Representation
  • DST 603 Law and Disability
  • DST 604 Current Topics in Disability II
  • DST 605 Sexuality, Desire and Disability
  • DST 613 Strategies for Community Building
  • DST 614 Community, Access and Technology
  • DST 640 Madness and Childhood
  • DST 725 The Politics and Practice of Interventions
  • DST 727 Leadership Practices for Changing Times
  • INT 921 Writing Bodies Differently

A maximum of two (2) courses from the following:

NOTE: Courses are grouped by topic to help guide course selection.

CHILD AND YOUTH CARE

  • CYC 602 Children's Rights
  • CYC 900 Diversity Issues for Children and Youth

CRIMINOLOGY

  • CRM 402 Criminal justice and Social Inequity
  • CRM 205 Gender, Sexuality and the Law

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY SERVICES

  • FCS 101 Social Justice and Mental Health
  • FCS 200 Indigenous Relations in Practice
  • FCS 400 Indigenous Sovereignty in Practice

GEOGRAPHY

  • GEO 627 Accessibility of Urban Social Services  

LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES

  • ASL 101 Introductory American Sign Language I
  • ASL 201 Introductory American Sign Language Il
  • ASL 301 Intermediate American Sign Language I
  • ASL 401 Intermediate American Sign Language II

NUTRITION

  • FNF 100 Families and Health
  • FNY 403 Food Security Concepts and Principles

OCCUPATIONAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH

PSYCHOLOGY

PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

  • PPA 319 Politics of Work and Labour
  • PPA 125†† Rights Equity and the State
  • POG 315†† Equity and Human Rights in Canada

SOCIAL WORK 

  • SWP 905 Criticl. Appr. to Mental Health and Madness
  • SWP 931 Human Rights for Social Workers
  • SWP 950 Fat Studies and Fat Activism
  • SWP 938 Innovative Organizing in Precarious Times

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOC 105 Introduction to Sociology
  • SOC 107 Sociology of the Everyday
  • SOC 300 Sociology of Equity and Diversity

*Only one of DST 501, INT 902 and SWP 921 can be used toward the Minor.

** Only one of DST 507 and PHL 507 can be used toward the Minor.

† Only one of DST 500 or DST 504 can be used toward the Minor.

†† Only one of PPA 125 or POG 315 can be used toward the Minor.

‡ Only one of PSY 102 or PSY 105 can be used toward the Minor.

Please see Senate Policy 2, Section 7.4 for further information about Minors.