Spring 2023 IDS Course Offerings

Undergraduate Course Offerings

DIS 300 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: 85881
Dates: 1/17/2023 – 04/28/2023
Day/Time: Mondays, 4:00 – 6:50 p.m.
Instructor: Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D.
Location: Corbett Hall 220 and 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: 85739
Dates: 01/17/23 – 04/28/23
Day/Time: Tuesdays , 4:00 – 6:50 PM
Instructor: Stephen Gilson, Ph.D.
Location: Corbett Hall 220 and 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: 85380
Dates: 01/17/23 – 04/28/23
Day/Time: TBA
Instructor: Stephen Gilson, Ph.D.
Location: TBD
Prerequisite: DIS 400 or by permission of instructor.

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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: 86095
Dates: 01/17/23 – 04/28/23
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: 86184
Date/Time: 01/17/23 – 04/28/23
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: 85052
Date/Time: 01/17/23 – 04/28/23
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: 85053
Date/Time: 01/17/23 – 04/28/23
Instructor: Elizabeth Depoy, Ph.D.