Programs & Courses
Through a non-medical and non-clinical interdisciplinary curriculum, this new program seeks to provide students with the knowledge base and theoretical means to question conventional understandings of the normal body and mind. Both core and elective courses in the program are oriented toward an analysis of historical, anthropological, sociological, and literary texts on disability and the lives of people with disabilities.
The program is a perfect complement to an education in medical and clinical fields for professionals and pre-professionals in fields such as rehabilitative and occupational therapy, nursing, social work, and various support services. The program will also be of interest to public school teachers and administrators developing curriculum for primary and secondary schools in disability-related subject matter.
Pending SUNY and State Education Department approval of the Disability Studies Concentration(expected in spring semester 2011), we anticipate enrolling our first students for the fall semester 2011.
Requirements for the Master of Arts (M.A.) in “Humanities - Interdisciplinary” with a formal
Concentration in Disability Studies
concert with an admissions committee.
• Students will complete a total of 30 units of core and elective courses that have been approved by the
Center for Disability Studies, plus 6 units of supervised project or internship.
• Students will take 5 (15 units) core courses to complete the degree.
••During their first semester of enrollment, students will take Disability Studies (fall semester).
••During their second semester, students will take Disability History I (spring semester).
• The remaining 3 core courses (totaling 9 units) may be taken anytime during the student’s tenure.
• Students will take 5 elective courses (totaling 15 units) as part of the degree.
• Students will take 6 units (1 course per semester) of supervised project or internship credit during
their final year in the program.
• Students will select their electives from the list of pre-approved elective courses within the Disability
Studies Concentration.
• Advanced students will be allowed to petition the Director of the Center for Disability Studies to take
elective courses that do not appear on the list of electives, but are directly relevant to their own interests
within disability studies.
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