Disability Studies Minor

Minor in

Disability Studies

Revised 2016-2017.

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.

Administered by: School of Disability Studies

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

Bachelor of Arts (Disability Studies)

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

One* (1) of the following:

DST 501	Rethinking Disability
INT 902	Disability Issues
SWP 921	Disability Issues Social Work Practice

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 507**	Disability, Justice and Good Human Life
	(or PHL 507** Ethics and Disability)
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

*DST 501, INT 902 and SWP 921 are antirequisites of each other, therefore only one is acceptable.

** DST 507 and PHL 507 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.

Please see (PDF file) Senate Policy 148 for further information about Minors.