Spring 2025 IDS Course Offerings

Undergraduate Course Offerings

DIS 300 Disability: Interaction of Human Diversity and Global Environments

Designed to introduce the student to disability as an element of human diversity that has a significant reciprocal relationship with the environment. (3 credits)

Class Number: 46569
Dates: 1/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Instructor: Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D.
Location: Web/Online
Satisfies Cultural Diversity & International Perspective (and) Population and Environment General Education
Requirement.

DIS 450 Disability: Population–Environment Diversity

Examines contemporary disability theory and locates it within the larger discourse on diversity. (3 credits)

Class Number: 46454
Dates: 01/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Instructor: Stephen Gilson, Ph.D.
Location: Web/Online
Satisfies Ethics and Cultural Diversity & International Perspective General Education Requirement.

DIS 480 Independent Project in Disability Studies

Individual work on a topic or problem selected by the student. Primarily for students in the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Disability Studies. Credits: 1-6

Class Number: 46050
Dates: 01/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Day/Time: TBA
Instructor: Stephen Gilson, Ph.D.
Location: UMaine Campus
Prerequisite: DIS 400 or by permission of instructor.

DIS 490 – Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Faculty and students identify and work on selected topics and/or problems related to the area of disability. Focuses on related literature, research, services/supports and materials. Credits: 1-6

Class Number: 45594
Dates: 01/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Day/Time: Fridays 9:00 a.m to 11:50 a.m.
Instructor: Marnie Bradgon Morneault
Location: Online Live
Class Notes: Permission from instructor required. Held on Zoom on Fridays from 9:00-11:50. there are some in-person meetings not held on UMaine campus.

Graduate Course Offering

DIS 520 Disability: Advanced Interaction of Human Diversity and Global Environments

Analyzes the historical context of current disability policy. (3 credits)

Class number: 46787
Dates: 01/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Instructor: Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D.
Location: Web/Online Course
Prerequisite: DIS 400

DIS 670 – Doctoral Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies

This course provides the structure and process in which students will conduct a project requiring advanced study in a topic or problem in disability studies.

Class number: 46882
Date/Time: 01/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Location: UMaine Campus
Instructor: Alan Cobo-Lewis Ph.D.

DIS 680: Independent Study in Disability Studies

Individual work on a disability related topic or problem selected by the student and approved by a Center for Community Inclusion faculty member.

Class number: 45742
Date/Time: 01/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Instructor: Alan Cobo-Lewis Ph.D.

DIS 680: Independent Study in Disability Studies

Individual work on a disability related topic or problem selected by the student and approved by a Center for Community Inclusion faculty member.

Class number: 45742
Date/Time: 01/21/2025 – 05/02/2025
Instructor: Elizabeth Depoy, Ph.D.