The components of the concentration are a common core of three DIS courses and electives in three categories of study.
Required Core DIS courses (9-12 credits):
- DIS 400: Disability as Diversity I (3 credits) (or DIS 300 by permission);
- DIS 450: Disability: Population-Environment Diversity (3 credits);
- DIS 470: Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies (3 to 6 credits).
Electives (12-15 credits):
The coursework and Project combine to provide 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).
- Coordinator for Interdisciplinary Education registers student for the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Disability Studies.
View Appendix A for the Undergraduate Plan of Study here.
View Appendix B for the Undergraduate Approval Status form here.
University of Maine Change of Program/Plan Sub-plan/Concentration form can be obtained from departmental advisors or the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, Room 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. Stephen Gilson at
stephen.gilson@umit.maine.edu ,
phone 207/581-1263, or TTY 207/581-1084;
FAX 207/581-1231.
