Academic Calendar - 2024
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Disability Studies 2281A/B
NARRATIVES AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
This “Integrated Co-Learning” experiential learning course explores how narratives help us make sense of our lives, in both empowering or limiting ways, and how negative, medicalized narratives about people with intellectual disability impact their life chances and selfunderstanding. It examines the lack of positive disability narratives and practices changing this.
Antirequisite(s): Disability Studies 2294A/B if taken in 2020-21, 2021-22.
Prerequisite(s): Disability Studies 1010A/B, and Disability Studies 2280A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Subject Code: DISABST
Disability Studies 2281A/B
NARRATIVES AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
This “Integrated Co-Learning” experiential learning course explores how narratives help us make sense of our lives, in both empowering or limiting ways, and how negative, medicalized narratives about people with intellectual disability impact their life chances and selfunderstanding. It examines the lack of positive disability narratives and practices changing this.
Antirequisite(s): Disability Studies 2294A/B if taken in 2020-21, 2021-22.
Prerequisite(s): Disability Studies 1010A/B, and Disability Studies 2280A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.