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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (IDS)

Concentration in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Undergraduate IDS concentration requirements:

The components of the undergraduate concentration are a common core of DIS courses and electives in three categories of study.

• DIS 400: Disability as Diversity I (3 credits)
  • DIS 300 may be substituted with permission from the coordinator;
• DIS 450: Disability: Population-Environment Diversity (3 credits);
• DIS 470: Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies (3 to 6 credits). AND
• Electives: chosen from a wide range of courses which have been reviewed and approved by the Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Academic Committee (12-15 credits. Choose a minimum of one course from each of the three categories: social change, diversity studies, and environmental context.)

The coursework provides students with an appreciation of the many factors that affect human diversity, and how their disciplines and disability studies can reciprocally inform one another.

Enrollment Procedures:

• Student discusses intent to pursue the concentration with his/her departmental advisor.
• Student and Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Coordinator complete the Undergraduate Concentration Plan of Study (Appendix A).
• Student completes a University of Maine Declaration of Concentration form and receives approval from his/her departmental advisor and the Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Coordinator to enter the concentration (Appendix B).
• The Coordinator for Interdisciplinary Disability Studies registers student for the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Disability Studies.

• Follow this link for the web version of the Undergraduate Plan of Study. The downloadable text version can be found in Appendix A.
• The downloadable text version of the Undergraduate Approval Status form can be found in Appendix B.
• University of Maine College/Major/Minor/Concentration forms (in PDF format) are available at this link or can be obtained from departmental advisors or the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, 100 Corbett Hall.

Graduate IDS concentrations requirements:

Graduate students may obtain a concentration in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies in conjunction with several masters degree programs across campus, or in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Ph.D., the individually designed Ed.D., and other doctoral programs throughout the university. Through coursework, independent studies, research, or independently pursued projects at CCIDS and in collaboration with the students′ academic departments, students examine a range of issues confronting local, state, national, and global communities in which people with disabilities live.

Masters level students would enroll and successfully complete the following courses:

• DIS 600 Contemporary Disability Theory
• DIS 620 Disability as Diversity
• DIS 630 Disability Policy OR
• DIS 650 Research Seminar in Disability Studies
• DIS 670 Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies

Doctoral level students would enroll in and successfully complete the following courses:

• DIS 600 Contemporary Disability Theory
• DIS 620 Disability as Diversity
• DIS 630 Disability Policy AND
• DIS 650 Research Seminar in Disability Studies
• DIS 670 Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies
• DIS 671 Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies II

Enrollment procedure:

Graduate students who wish to pursue a graduate concentration in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies should work with their academic advisor and the IDS Coordinator to develop a plan of study.

Contact:

For complete information about Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, visit the coordinator at 201 Corbett Hall, or contact Prof. Elizabeth DePoy at edepoy@maine.edu, phone 207/581-1469, or TTY 207/581-1084; FAX 207/581-1231.

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