Summer 2023 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: 2455
Dates: May 8, 2023 – May 26, 2023
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: 2489
Dates: July 10, 2023 – August 18, 2023
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.
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