Summer 2024 IDS 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: 21681
Dates: May 12, 2025 – May 30, 2025
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: 21745
Dates: July 7, 2025 – August 15, 2025
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.