Summer 2021 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: 80832
Dates: May 10, 2021 – May 28, 2021
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: 80868
Dates: June 21, 2021 – July 30, 2021
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.