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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (IDS)

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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Administered through the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS), with participation from faculty across the University, Interdisciplinary Disability Studies provides graduate and undergraduate students a means to explore disability within the larger context of diversity and to examine theory, research, policy analysis, and professional practice related to persons with disabilities.

Undergraduate

The undergraduate concentration in Disability Studies 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. Undergraduate concentration students enroll in 24 credits distributed among elective courses in three categories: social change, diversity studies, and environmental context; and three core interdisciplinary courses taught by faculty with expertise in disability studies. Students declare this concentration in addition to their major field of study.

Required Core DIS courses (9-12 credits):

• DIS 400 Disability as Diversity 1 (3 credits);
• DIS 450 Disability: Population-Environment Diversity (3 credits);
• DIS 470 Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies (3-6 credits).

Other Disability Studies Courses:

• DIS 300 Disability: Interaction of Human Diversity and Global Environments (3 credits).
• DIS 480 Independent Project in Disability Studies (1-6 credits).
• DIS 490 Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (1-6 credits).

Graduate

The graduate concentration in Disability Studies provides the opportunity for advanced study of theory, research, policy, and practice relevant to the lives of individuals and groups with disabilities. Located within the larger discourse of human diversity, disability is analyzed as an economic, social, cultural, political, and individual phenomenon.

CCIDS offers graduate students several avenues through which to pursue their individual interests in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies. Graduate students may obtain a concentration in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies in conjunction with several master’s degree programs across campus, or in conjunction with individually designed Interdisciplinary Ph.D. or Ed.D. programs. Courses may also be taken as electives.

The master’s and doctoral level curriculum in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies includes the following courses:

• DIS 600 Contemporary Disability Theory
• DIS 620 Disability as Diversity
• DIS 630 Disability Policy
• DIS 650 Research Seminar in Disability Studies
• DIS 670 Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies 1
• DIS 671 Interdisciplinary Project in Disability Studies 2
• DIS 680 Independent Study in Disability Studies
• DIS 690 Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Learn More

For more information and course descriptions, visit Interdisciplinary Disability Studies online at http://www.ccids.umaine.edu/interedu/ids/default.htm or contact Liz DePoy, Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, 5717 Corbett Hall, Room 200, Orono, ME 04469-5717. (Voice) 207/581-1084; (V/TTY), 800/203-6957

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