Spring 2024 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: 44681
Dates: 1/16/2024 – 04/26/2024
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: 44541
Dates: 01/16/24 – 04/26/24
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: 44180
Dates: 01/16/24 – 04/26/24
Day/Time: TBA
Instructor: Stephen Gilson, Ph.D.
Location: UMaine Campus
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: 44898
Dates: 01/16/24 – 04/26/24
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: 44989
Date/Time: 01/16/24 – 04/26/24
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: 43867
Date/Time: 01/16/24 – 04/26/24
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: 43868
Date/Time: 01/16/24 – 04/26/24
Instructor: Elizabeth Depoy, Ph.D.