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Practicum in Disability Studies-A/B
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Only students who do not have the equivalent of two years of full-time related work/advocacy experience will be required to take this course. Students accepted into the program without this requirement may apply to be exempt from DST 80A/B if, during their course of studies, they have acquired sufficient work/advocacy experience. This experience will involve work in a community placement involving advocacy, support or community development with citizens with disabilities.
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Lab: 21 hrs.
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Course Weight: 2.00
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DST
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88A/B
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Research Methods-A/B
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This course will provide students with a basic understanding of social research and its relevance to disability studies. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills required to plan, conduct and critically analyse research. A range of qualitative and quantitative methods and their use within positivist, research plays in perpetuating or transforming perceptions of disability is explored. Issues of social location and the meaningful participation of people with disabilities in research are discussed.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 2.00
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DST
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99A/B
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Applied Community Project/Thesis-A/B
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This is the "capstone" course of the Disability Studies program. It provides students with the opportunity to engage in focussed scholarly and project work from a disability studies perspective. It must be taken after all other courses. The course will be individually structured for each student in collaboration with a faculty advisor. The orienting question will revolve around how social environments and structures shape the experience of people with disabilities.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 4.00
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DST
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500
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A History of Madness
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Where do diverse concepts of "madness" come from? How have these ideas changed over time? How have "mad people" interpreted their own experiences? This course will be in the tradition of social history from "below". It will survey the social medical, political, economic, cultural and religious factors that have influenced interpretations of what it means to be "mad" from ancient time to the present. Not available to Child and Youth Care students who choose 'DST' courses from Table I.
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UL
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Antirequisite: DST 504, Restriction: DS001
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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501
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Perspectives on Disability I
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This foundation course introduced the core ideas students will explore throughout their studies. It immerses students in a highly participatory and provocative encounter with history, social theory, politics, policy, art and culture seen through a disability lens. Course content is designed to reflect the experience of people with disabilities, highlighting the social roots and impact of discrimination, exclusion and marginalization as well as responses of resistance.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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502
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Perspectives on Disability II
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This course begins with students' day-to-day experience of "policy", moving towards deeper examination of the underlying values, interests and institutions that shape social and disability policy. Students are guided to make comparisons and connections, looking at historical responses to disability and at contemporary programs and services. Readings and online presentations explore what policy means, why it matters, and what processes and strategies are activated by people with disabilities to influence, shape and reform social policy.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: DST 501 or INT 902
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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503
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Current Topics in Disability I
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This course will provide students with an opportunity to engage in an in-depth examination of specialized and scholarly work within the disability studies field. Content will be chosen by the Instructor based on recent research and trends in the field.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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504
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Mad People's History
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This course will provide an overview of the history of madness from the point of view of people who were, and are, deemed "mad". The purpose of this course is to place the diverse perspectives of people diagnosed as mad, insane or mentally ill as being of central importance in the history of psychiatry, and to address the question: how madness has been viewed by mad people over the centuries.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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603
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Disability and The Law
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This course is constructed around 'fact' situations, illustrative of real-life dilemmas faced by disabled people, their families, advocates and service providers. How to find and use the law will be explored as will the often competing issues of independence, dignity, personal and economic security. Students will analyze when the law may help or hinder, and how it may be changed.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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604
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Current Topics in Disability II
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This course will provide students with a further opportunity to engage in an in-depth examination of specialized and scholarly work within the disability studies field. Content will be chosen by the Instructor based on recent research and trends in the field.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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613
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Strategies for Community Building
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This course addresses the importance of community building given the realities of social exclusion and the challenges represented by diversity in the current social, political and economic context in Canada. The starting point is the particular view of reality held by people with disabilities. Students are encouraged to analyze power, inequality and influence before building strategies for action, and to develop a personal ethical stance in which to ground community development practice.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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614
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Community Access and Technology
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Students are introduced to assistive technologies, their impact on people with disabilities, models of use, public policy and legislation (local, federal, international). In addition to online readings and exploratory assignments, students participate in online discussion forums and live weekly e-chats with leaders in the assistive technology field. The final project offers students an opportunity to explore a technology of interest in the context of addressing an unmet need or burning issue in their community.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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725
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Enabling Interventions
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Students arrive at the site of "Enabling Interventions" with a sense of outrage at the barriers to community life that people with disabilities frequently experience. Students are invited to "listen keenly" to the stories told of everyday encounters with people, professional practices, communities, systems, services and policies and laws. Through focussed web-based dialogue, students use theory, experience, principles and creativity to determine an enabling response to the barriers encountered in these narratives.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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DST
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726
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Leadership in Human Services
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This course illuminates many challenges that leaders and managers of human services face in a changing environment. It incorporates theoretical and practical elements rooted in the perspective that people supported by human services require opportunities to lead dignified lives and the means to exercise personal choice, control and independence. Students will examine the complex issues raised when those receiving services, managers, and activists interact to design, organize and change traditional models of delivering services and supports.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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