Intro to Critical Disability Studies

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:13:43 -0500

Tues/Thurs 10-11:15AM

Physics 107

Drew Holladay
This course introduces students to the field, core concepts, and methods that comprise critical disability studies, providing an interdisciplinary overview of the events, people, concepts, and issues at the center of the disability rights movement and its related academic communities. Following the slogan "Nothing About Us Without Us," course materials (whether academic or popular) have been written by people with disabilities who connect their creative work to education, politics, and everyday life. Students learn about disability justice frameworks that show how able-bodied supremacy has been formed in relation to other systems of domination and exploitation. The class works collaboratively and creatively to build understanding of disability experience and to challenge societal ableism and injustice.