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UMinDS Recordings - Fall 2005 Recordings

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Sept 9 - Introduction to Disability Studies: Disciplinary Points of View. What are the issues at stake in the humanities, social sciences, and applied fields? Background readings: Davis 1999; Gill

Sept 16 - Other Cultures, Other Disabilities: Trends in Disability in the "First" and "Third" Worlds. Readings: Charlton; Lacey

Sept 23 - History of Disability Culture. Readings: Baynton; Braddock and Parish; Brown, pp. 77-81, 93-100; Wade

Sept 30 - Disability Statistics: What Counts as Disability? Speaker: Mary Chamie. Readings: Fougeryrollas; Fujiura; Omi; Whaley and Hashim.

Oct 7 - Student Run Section on Writings by People with Disabilities. Readings: Brown, pp. 61-69; Fries; Johnson 2003; Kleege; Mairs; O'Brien. Short description of Project and Bibliography Due.

Oct 14 - The Disability Culture and the Independent Living Movement. Speakers: AACIL. Readings: Brown, pp. 25-34

Oct 21 - Student Run Mid-Term Evaluation and Discussion

Oct 28 - Popular Cultural Myths: Narcissism and Disability. Readings: Cubbage and Thomas; Freud; Thomas

Nov 4 - Social Construction and Disability: Challenges to Understanding Disability in Other Cultures. Readings: Fox; Lupton; Wendell

Nov 11 - Cognitive Disability and Narrative. Speaker: Michael Berube. Reading: Berube

Nov 18 - The Case of Terri Schiavo. Readings: Goodman; Johnson 2005; Quindlen; Mundell; Taylor

Nov 25 - Thanksgiving. No Class

Dec 2 - Disability Performance. Speaker: Alex Lubet. Reading: Lubet

Dec 9 - Presentations of Class Projects by Students; Class Evaluation. Projects Due