Summer 2020 DIS Course Offerings

Undergraduate Offering

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: 20749
Dates: May 11, 2020 – May 29, 2020
Instructor: Stephen F. Gilson, Ph.D.
Location: Web/Online

Satisfies Cultural Diversity & International Perspective (and) Population and Environment General Education Requirement.

Graduate Offering

DIS 500 Contemporary Disability Theory

Critically examines historical and contemporary context of disability and analyzes the emergence of disability as a contemporary category of human diversity. (3 credits)

Class Number: 20787
Dates: June 22, 2020 – July 31, 2020
Instructor: Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D.
Location: Web/Online

DIS 500 is one of three courses needed for the University of Maine Graduate Certificate in
Interdisciplinary Disability Studies.