Disability Studies
Disability Studies
Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores social, political, cultural, and economic factors that shape disability; considers the ways disability is understood and constructed across different historical moments, cultures, and nations; examines the intersectional relationships amongst disability, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality; and foregrounds the experiences and perspectives of advocates, scholars, artists, and thinkers. The Disability Studies program attunes students to varied ways of thinking, communicating and moving through the world.
Disability Studies Degree
We offer a minorThe Disability Studies Minor provides an interdisciplinary perspective on key disability issues. We approach disability not as fixed or singular category, but as a fluid, historically shifting, culturally specific formation that intersects with race, class, gender, language and nation. Together we will study disability history, culture and politics in ways that foreground disabled people’s experiences, perspectives, and knowledge.
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Disability Studies Minor
18 Credits
The Disability Studies minor approaches the category of disability critically, as a socio-political phenomenon. It also centers disabled peoples’ experiences, perspectives, and activism.
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Wanting more?
A graduate section is offered as one of the two required courses for the Disability Studies undergraduate minor. Interested graduate students may enroll, when it is offered, in GNDR 6880/DISAB 6880 Bad Bodies: Gender and Disability. Interested graduate students may also enroll in one of our Disability Studies electives, GNDR 6420, Race, Disability, and Illness, when it is offered.
Disability Studies Collective
The Disability Collective welcomes disabled people and allies who are faculty, instructors, staff, and/or graduate students at the University of Utah. The group offers opportunities for social interaction, mutual support, and accessibility advocacy.