DIS ST Course Delivery Plans 

Summer 2024

A-term

  • DIS ST / HSTCMP 402 & 502 Topics in Disability History, Instructor: Joanne Woiak, Summer A-Term, hybrid learning.
    • Topic: Race, Place, and Family Disability History [fulfills Subfield B Historical & Global, and Disability Studies Graduate Certificate elective]
    • Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1729227
      • Hybrid learning course delivery plan:
        • Mondays: asynchronous lectures, podcasts & webinars
        • Tuesdays: class meets both in the on-campus classroom and on Zoom, 1:50pm - 4:00pm
        • Wednesdays: class meets on Zoom, 1:50-4:00pm (or some weeks asynch)
        • Thursdays: class meets both in the on-campus classroom and on Zoom, 1:50pm - 4:00pm
        • NOTE: This course can be completed online and asynchronously. All materials will be available for asynchronous access.
      • Course description: This course seeks to bring disability into the center of historical inquiry, engaging with topics and themes in the histories of disability in the United States from the 19th to the 21st centuries.The course content will be offered in a variety of modalities in order to provide as much flexibility and accessibility as possible. Some class sessions will meet in person with synchronous remote access, and some will meet on Zoom only. All classes will be recorded and all class materials will be available for asynchronous access. There will be synchronous and asynchronous participation options. My goal is to support you this summer in engaging with the course material while navigating hybrid learning. Students will participate in synchronous or asynchronous discussions, write short responses to the readings, films, and podcasts, and complete a final paper of 4-5 pages or a project in another format. Please contact instructor Joanne Woiak for further information (jwoiak@uw.edu).
      • Readings (these books plus additional articles):
        • Adria Imada, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration (University of California Press, 2022)
        • Antonia Hylton, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Legacy Lit, 2024)

Full-term

  • DIS ST/ LSJ / CHID 332 B (SLN 11110) Disability and Society: Access & Inclusion in Outdoor Recreation, Instructor: Jason Naranjo, Summer Full Term, hybrid & service earning [fulfills Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
    • Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1729042/assignments/syllabus
    • Course modality: In Person Class Meetings:  THE FIRST IN PERSON CLASS MEETING ON JUNE 18th FROM 11am-1pm IS REQUIRED  in addition 5-7 service learning days to arranged across a range of activities in the greater Seattle area with Outdoors For All.  Online Class Meeting Dates:  UW class meetings will be: Fridays 07.19; 08.02; 08.16 from 11pm-1:00pm. Online sessions will be captioned, recorded and transcribed to maximize accessibility.  
    • Course description: Apply learning from the field of disability studies by making outdoor play and recreation accessible to people with disabilities. This course focuses on service learning in partnership with the Outdoors for All Foundation. The course requires you to be at parks and other outdoor recreational spaces in the Seattle area for five to seven days spread between June 17th and August 16th. The first in person class meeting on June 18th from 11am-1pm is required. You will choose from a range of instructional and support roles across a variety of summer recreational activities. Days and times of service-learning in the community will depend on the recreational activities you choose to support. Choice of activities will depend on your experience with activities offered and the needs of outdoors for all.
    • This course is designed to provide you with an opportunity to apply learning from the field of Disability Studies in the community with people with disability. Through use of service-learning, academic texts, and contemporary media we will explore the following areas of study: a) access & barriers to inclusive play and recreation, b) allyship and social change, and c) the importance of outdoor play and recreation across the lifespan. This course will be taught through a partnership with the Outdoors for All Foundation: https://outdoorsforall.org/
  • DIS ST 360 A Redesigning Humanity: Disability in Speculative Fiction, Instructor: Joanne Woiak, Summer Full Term, Distance Learning [fulfills Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
    • Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1729225
    • NOTE: This course can be completed entirely asynchronously.
    • Distance Learning course delivery plan: Synchronous class meetings Mondays & Wednesdays, 10:20am-12:10pm, on Zoom
    • Course description: Octavia Butler set her novel Parable of the Sower in the year 2024 in a dystopian United States damaged by climate collapse, racist violence, and economic crisis. How did Butler and other disabled, BIPOC, and multiply marginalized artist-activists imagine where we would be in the near future? Their interventions in the speculative fiction (SF) genre aim to “write ourselves into the future,” as visionary author Butler puts it. This course will analyze SF texts - centering stories and novels by Black disabled authors, as well as several SF films - that use speculative settings and nonrealist conventions to comment on contemporary social issues and bioethical debates. We’ll critique how SF has deployed potentially problematic tropes and metaphors that reflect mainstream attitudes about disability, race, gender, and sexuality. By focusing on the connection between speculative fiction, the field of disability studies (DS), and the work of BIPOC and queer Disability Justice (DJ) activists and scholars, the course will consider representations of disability and neurodivergence, including intersections of racism and ableism, in which authors and readers create new meanings of accessibility, identity, community, family, justice, normal, and human. 
    • This course has no prerequisites. It fulfills DIV requirements, and DIS ST Subfield C. Students will participate in synchronous or asynchronous discussions, write short responses to the readings, films, and podcasts, and complete a final paper of 4-5 pages or a project in another format.  Please contact instructor Joanne Woiak for further information (jwoiak@uw.edu). The course is designed to provide flexibility in how you access the content and how you show your engagement with the material in online learning format.
    • Readings: We will read two novels and several short stories.

B-term

  • DIS ST 300 A Disability Studies in Education [new course number] Instructor: Jason Naranjo, Summer B-Term, MTWR 9:40-11:50, distance learning [fulfills either Subfield A Rights, Policies, and Inequalities or Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
    • Syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1729223/assignments/syllabus
    • Course Meeting Time and Modality: All  class meetings happen via Zoom, Synchronous Monday & Wednesday 10:00am-Noon. Asynchronous, Tuesday & Thursday. 1:1 Meetings by appointment.  All class meetings will be have transcript and recording. 
    • Course description: This course is designed to provide you with a place to examine history, theory, values, and assumptions about disability in the contexts of schools and society. This course will explore how disability is defined within our educational system and in society at large. We will be joined weekly by guest speakers who will share their lived experiences and perspectives on the topics at hand. These individuals represent scholars, teachers, parents, students, and activists who will share their knowledge about  disability in schools. We will focus our learning in the following areas of inquiry, a) historical and theoretical foundations for defining disability, b) disability in the context of public schooling, c) the relationship between disability, social change, and equitable access to opportunity. The primary goal of this course is to develop a critical understanding of how disability and situated in the contexts schools and society.
    • SAME COURSE OFFERED AS LAST SUMMER 2023 (DIS ST 332 A) DISABILITY STUDIES AND EDUCATION. DO NOT REPEAT THIS COURSE.

Spring 2024

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 Introduction to Disability Studies, Instructor: Joanne Woiak, MW lecture 10:00-11:20 plus Thursdays quiz section.
    • This course will be DISTANCE LEARNING: Lectures synchronous on Zoom + pre-recorded; Quiz Sections synchronous on Zoom on Thursdays only.
  • DIS ST / BH 421 History of Eugenics, Instructor: Joanne Woiak, TTh 1:30-3:50, SAV 166 [fulfills DS Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives; fulfills DS Graduate Certificate elective]
    • Hybrid learning: Class will meet synchronously on T and Th, with in-person, online and asynchronous options. To be placed on the waiting list, contact jwoiak@uw.edu
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 430 A / DIS ST 535 A Topics in Disability Studies, Instructor: Ryan DeCarsky, W 1:30-4:20pm, PCAR 492 [fulfills DS Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity; fulfills DS Graduate Certificate elective]
    • Topic: "Queering the Crip and Cripping the Queer"
    • In-person learning
    • Description: In this course, students are invited to think about queer and crip ways of knowing and approaches to the world. Existing as a queer and/or disabled person is not a uniform experience, yet together, queer and disabled communities around the world have developed unique and powerful ways of engaging with it. In this class, we will dive into this growing pool of knowledge, with special attention to the overlap. We will read literature spread across Queer Theory, Crip Theory, and Critical Disability Studies more broadly, with special attention to power and intersectionality. We will critically engage in discussions of race, class, gender, and sexualities as they co-construct crip and queer experiences. Students in this course will be invited to jump into this scholarship, bringing their own backgrounds and thinking to all class sessions. 
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar,  Th 6:00-7:50pm, 1-credit C/NC. Online learning. Contact hdevans@uw.edu for add code.
  • SOC W 576 Contexts of Disability and Anti-Ableist Practice, Instructor: Jess Chrivoli, DISTANCE LEARNING, F 11:30-2:20 [3 credits, counts as elective for DS grad and undergrad students]

Winter 2024

  • Course has been canceled: DIS ST / CHID / LSJ 332 A  Disability & Society / BEDUC 391 A Topics in Education, Topic: "A Focus on Community and the Outdoors."
  • DIS ST / CHID / LSJ 332 B Disability & Society, Instructor Maddie Zdeblick, MW 10:30-12:20, CMU 226 [fulfills DS subfield C Diversity, Identity, and Representation] 
    • Topic: "Disability in Theater and Performance"
    • Hybrid learning: Class will meet synchronously on M and W, with in-person attendance encouraged and an online, synchronous option.
    • In the often-cited words of disabled actor and playwright Neil Marcus, “Disability is an art—an ingenious way to live.” In this course, considering disability from a critical, intersectional perspective, we’ll explore the (sometimes fraught, always enlightening) relationship between disability and contemporary theater and performance practices. Through readings, group discussions, and embodied performance engagements, we will deconstruct what is considered “normal” in today’s theatrical landscape, reflect on the contributions of disabled scholars, artists, and activists to theater and performance scholarship and practice, and imagine possibilities for “cripping” theater and theater education towards sustaining justice for multiply-marginalized disabled communities of color. 
  • DIS ST 384 A / GEOG 395 A Topics in Disability Rights & Inequalities, Instructor Ronnie Thibault, MW 1:30-3:20, SAV 166 [fulfills DS subfield A Rights, Policies & Inequalities] 
    • Topic: "Disability Geographies: Space, Place, & Transnational Disability Activism" 
    • In-person lectures and online lab sessions.
    • This course will engage transnational disability theories and spatial geographies to explore the geopolitics of disability activism in the global South as presented by disabled activists, scholars, artists, individuals, and allies located outside of 'globally Northern' territories and spaces. We will draw on deep mapping, narrative mapping, and digital mapping techniques to explore how disability activists and scholars in the global South conceptualize and define terminologies related to the geopolitical economies of neoliberalism, colonialism, austerity, global development, the majority world, transnationalism, and postcolonialism. We will draw on activist understandings and practices to better recognize how these discourses have impacted disabled people in real-world settings.
  • DIS ST / HSTCMP 402 and DIS ST / HSTCMP 502 A Topics in Disability History, Joanne Woiak, TTh 1:30-3:20, ARC 160 [fulfills DS Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives and DS Graduate Certificate Elective]
    • Topic: “Disability History of the United States" 
    • Hybrid learning with in-person, online, and asynchronous options. Tues class meetings on Zoom, Thurs class meetings hybrid in ARC 160 + Zoom.
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar, Th 6:00-8:00pm, 1-credit C/NC, Online learning. Contact jwoiak@uw.edu for add code.

Autumn 2023

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 A Introduction to Disability Studies, Heather Evans, Lecture MW 10:00-11:20, Th quiz section
  • DIS ST / GWSS / CHID / 335 A Sex, Gender, & Disability, Joanne Woiak, TTh 1:30-3:20, Hybrid format [fulfills Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
  • DIS ST / LSJ / JSIS 346 Disability in Global & Comparative Perspective, Stephen Meyers, MW 10:30-12:20 [fulfills Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives]
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 430 Topics in Disability Studies: "I needed distance learning before COVID": Examining Education within Crip Spacetime for non-traditional students and students with disabilities, Co-instructors Ashley Cowan D'Ambrosio and Christine Lew, TTh 3:30-5:20, Hybrid format [fulfills Subfield A Rights, Policies, Inequalities; fulfills Grad Certificate elective].  Hybrid (Hyflex) Learning: Students have the option of participating online, in-person, synchronously or asynchronously or any combination within, in alignment with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.
  • DIS ST 501 Seminar on Critical Disability Studies Foundations, Joanne Woiak, MW 3:30-5:20 [for add code email jwoiak@uw.edu]
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar, Th 6:00-7:50pm, 1-credit C/NC

Summer 2023

A-term

  • DIS ST / HSTCMP 402 & 502 Topics in Disability History, Instructor: Joanne Woiak, Summer A-Term, hybrid learning. Topic: Devices & Designs: Histories of (In)Accessible America [fulfills Subfield B Historical & Global, and Disability Studies Graduate Certificate elective]
    • Canvas syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1643330
    • Hybrid learning course delivery plan:
      • Mondays: asynchronous lectures, podcasts & webinars
      • Tuesdays: class meets on Zoom, 1:50-4:00pm
      • Wednesdays: class meets both in the on-campus classroom and on Zoom, 1:50pm - 4:00pm
      • Thursdays: class meets both in the on-campus classroom and on Zoom, 1:50pm - 4:00pm
      • NOTE: This course can be completed online and asynchronously. All materials will be available for asynchronous access.
    • Course description: This course seeks to bring disability into the center of historical inquiry, engaging with topics and themes in the histories of disability in the United States from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Topics this Summer will focus on disability activist movements, histories of medicine and technology in the lives of disabled and D/deaf people, design, material culture, and accessibility. Required readings will be: Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (2020); Bess Williamson, Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design (2019).  The course content will be offered in a variety of modalities in order to provide as much flexibility and accessibility as possible. Some class sessions will meet in person with synchronous remote access, and some will meet on Zoom only. All classes will be recorded and all class materials will be available for asynchronous access. There will be synchronous and asynchronous participation options. My goal is to support you this summer in engaging with the course material while navigating hybrid learning. Students will participate in synchronous or asynchronous discussions, write short responses to the readings, films, and podcasts, and complete a final paper of 4-5 pages or a project in another format. Please contact instructor Joanne Woiak for further information (jwoiak@uw.edu).

Full-term

  • DIS ST/ LSJ / CHID 332 B (SLN 11110) Disability and Society: Access & Inclusion in Outdoor Recreation, Instructor: Jason Naranjo, Summer Full Term, hybrid & service earning [fulfills Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
    • This course is designed to provide you with an opportunity to apply learning from the field of Disability Studies in the community with people with disability. Through use of service-learning, academic texts, and contemporary media we will explore the following areas of study: a) access & barriers to inclusive play and recreation, b) allyship and social change, and c) the importance of outdoor play and recreation across the lifespan. This course will be taught through a partnership with the Outdoors for All Foundation: https://outdoorsforall.org/
    • Hybrid & Service Learning course delivery plan:
      • In person class meetings will be organized around service learning in the community. This course requires you to be at parks and other outdoor recreation spaces in Seattle for five to seven days spread June 20th–August 18th. You will choose from a range of instructional and support roles across a variety of summer recreational activities including but not limited to day camps, rock climbing, paddle sports, and cycling. Days and times of service-learning in the community will depend on the recreational activities that you choose to support.. Opportunities for both day and evening participation will be available Monday–Friday with some opportunity for weekends. Online seminar meetings will happen from 12pm-2pm on 06.23, 07.21, & 08.04.

B-term

  • DIS ST/ LSJ / CHID 332 A (SLN 11109) Disability and Society: Disability Studies in Education, Instructor: Jason Naranjo, Summer B-Term, MTWR 9:40-11:50, hybrid learning [fulfills Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
    • Hybrid Learning course delivery plan:
      • The first class meeting will be in-person. Most of the following class meetings will be online via Zoom. Contact instructor Jason Naranjo for more details (jnaranjo@uw.edu)
  • DIS ST 360 A Redesigning Humanity: Disability in Speculative Fiction, Instructor: Joanne Woiak, Summer B Term, Distance Learning [fulfills Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]

    • Canvas syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1655790/assignments/syllabus

    • Distance Learning course delivery plan:

      • Tuesdays & Wednesdays: Class meetings on Zoom, 1:50-4:00pm, will be recorded for asynchronous access. No class meetings on Mondays or Thursdays.
    • NOTE: This course can be completed entirely asynchronously.
    • Canvas syllabus: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1655790
    • Distance Learning course delivery plan:
      • Tuesdays & Wednesdays: Class meetings on Zoom, 1:50-4:00pm, will be recorded for asychronous access. No meetings on Mondays or Thursdays.
      • This course can be completed entirely asynchronously.
    • Course description: Disabled, BIPOC, and multiply marginalized artist-activists intervene in the speculative fiction (SF) genre to “write ourselves into the future,” as visionary author Octavia Butler puts it. This course will analyze SF texts - stories, films, and 2 novels by Black disabled authors - that use speculative settings and nonrealist conventions to comment on contemporary social issues and bioethical debates. We’ll critique how SF has deployed potentially problematic tropes and metaphors that reflect mainstream attitudes about disability, race, gender, and sexuality. By focusing on the connection between speculative fiction, the field of disability studies (DS), and the work of BIPOC and queer Disability Justice (DJ) activists and scholars, the course will consider representations of disability and neurodivergence, including intersections of racism and ableism, in which authors and readers create new meanings of accessibility, identity, community, family, justice, normal, and human. 
    • This course has no prerequisites. It fulfills DIV requirements, and DIS ST Subfield C. Students will participate in synchronous or asynchronous discussions, write short responses to the readings, films, and podcasts, and complete a final paper of 4-5 pages or a project in another format.  Please contact instructor Joanne Woiak for further information (jwoiak@uw.edu). The course is designed to provide flexibility in how you access the content and how you show your engagement with the material in online learning format.
    • Readings: We will read two novels and several short stories.
  • Some electives:
    • EDUC 300: Race & Disability (5 credits) Summer 2023, A & B Terms Online, asynchronous. Students with disabilities and students of color are often talked about in school contexts as two distinct identity groups. When students of color with disabilities are discussed it is in the context of disability identification and appropriate placement in special education, where institutional policies and practices, not student experiences, are foregrounded. Often, these institutional policies and practices construct both disability and race in negative, stigmatized ways, and simultaneously ignore the voices of students who live at the intersection of both identity groups. While research and practice have addressed the schooling experiences and identity development of students of color and students with disabilities separately, this course will instead explore what is illuminated about school and schooling when race and disability are considered together. Students will take up theories of intersectionality, social constructions of race and disability, DisCrit, and first-person narratives of people of color with disabilities in order to explore contemporary schooling issues affecting this intersectional identity and how we may work towards education equity.

Spring 2023

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 Introduction to Disability Studies, Joanne Woiak, MW lecture 10:00-11:20 plus Th quiz section. Contact jwoiak@uw.edu for add code.
    • Hybrid learning: lectures will be synchronous and asynchronous, and will be recorded; quiz sections will be synchronous.
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 332 A Disability & Society: Media & Pop Culture, Ryan DeCarsky, MW 11:30-1:20 [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
    • Hybrid learning: The class will meet one day per week synchronously on Zoom, and one day per week synchronously in the classroom. Topic: "Media and Pop Culture." This synchronous fully remote course will meet two times a week via zoom and provide an in-depth examination of the social construction of ‘disability’ reflected in and shaped by media and pop culture.  The class is discussion driven; together we will critically engage with examples from film and TV, social media, fashion, sports, and art both by and about disabled peoples. By examining popular culture through a Disability Studies (DS) lens, the course will aid you in your journey to understand and consider the ways disability representations in the media reify, problematize, and/or challenge the marginalization of disabled persons. 
  • DIS ST / BH 421 History of Eugenics, Joanne Woiak, TTh 1:30-3:50 [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives; fulfills Grad Certificate elective]
    • Hybrid learning: Class will meet synchronously on T and Th, with one day per week on Zoom and one day per week in the classroom. All class sessions will be recorded and there will be asynchronous participation options.
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 430 A (5 credits) Topics in Disability Studies: Disability, Representation & Intersectionality: Cultural Studies Approaches, Ronnie Thibault, MW 1:30-3:20 [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity; fulfills Grad Certificate elective]
    • Hybrid learning: The class will meet Mondays in the classroom and Wednesdays on Zoom.  Topic: "Disability, Representation, and Intersectionality: Cultural Studies Approaches." What is representation and why does it matter in disability contexts? This course will encourage you to think differently about disability representation at the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, and nation. We will investigate intersectional approaches to Disability Studies with a central focus on cultural representation as both theory and practice. This class will help you to recognize the ways in which culture and representation work together to frame understandings (and misunderstandings) about disability, how the power of representation operates across media modalities, geographies, and histories, and how disability activists push against the more common stereotypes and tropes that have created dangerous misunderstandings about their lives. This is an interactive hybrid course that includes in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous lectures, weekly in-class workshops, and online discussions and activities. The course is media and workshop intensive and together we will apply cultural studies tools and techniques as we question disability representations across a multiplicity of social media, news, popular culture, legal, and additional media platforms. 
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 434 A Civil and Human Rights Law for Disabled People, Stephen Rosenbaum, TTh 10:30-12:20 [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield A Rights, Policy, Inequality]
    • The course examines theoretical and empirical aspects of disability rights law, and policy development and analysis—from a cross-disability perspective. This includes an understanding of disabled persons’ access to public accommodations, workplaces, education and interaction with the built environment--from the perspective of the United States and various international and third country national models. The concepts, principles, and your critique and reflection, are more important than a mastery of particular case law, codes or regulations. Whether you are new to Disability Studies or a veteran scholar or activist, this is a course for you. And, while this is not a “junior law school” course, it will appeal to LSJ students with its focus on law and policy. It also offers the opportunity for the critical thinking, intellectual inquiry, and self-reflection that is the hallmark of CHID programs.  Grading will be based on your brief written reflections or analyses of readings or audio-visual links assigned before each class, in-class discussions and role plays, and a final group research project (written and oral presentation). Instructor Stephen Rosenbaum has an extensive background in university-level teaching, research and writing and litigation and advocacy in the field of disability rights. If questions, feel free to contact Prof. Rosenbaum at srosenb@uw.edu
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar,  Mark Harniss, Th 6:00-7:50pm, 1-credit C/NC. Online learning. Contact hdevans@uw.edu for add code.

Winter 2023

  • DIS ST / CHID / LSJ 332 A  Disability & Society / BEDUC 391 A Topics in Education, Jason Naranjo, see Time Schedule notes about this community-based learning course [fulfills DS major/minor subfield C Diversity, Identity, and Representation]

    • Topic: "A Focus on Community and the Outdoors." Learn how scholarship and practice in the field of Disability Studies in Education is applied in community through accessible outdoor recreation. This is a Community Based Learning course in partnership with the Outdoors for All Foundation. In-person meetings will be either at Stevens or Snoqualmie Pass. This course will explore historical and philosophical foundations, the inclusion/exclusion of youth with disabilities and those labeled with disability, and allyship and social change. Must have own snow equipment + gear. Deeply discounted seasons passes will be provided Class schedule: Online - Fridays; In-person/Training - Weekends 12/3 + 12/4, 12/10 + 12/11, 12/17 + 12/18 - 8:30am - 3pm; 1/17 - 3/17 - 8am - 3pm (7 weekend days, Sat or Sun required).

  • DIS ST / HSTCMP 402 and DIS ST / HSTCMP 502 A Disability History, Joanne Woiak, TTh 1:30-3:20, hybrid format [no prerequisites, fulfills DS major/minor Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives and DS Graduate Certificate Elective]

    • Topic:  “Other ‘Others’ in US Disability History."  The essay “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’” (Kudlick 2003) announced the analytic and theoretical tools of an emerging field of study with the potential to “reshape our scholarly landscape.” The terrain of disability history has now expanded to encompass lived experiences and concepts not typically named as disability, especially at the intersections of race, class, sex, and gender. This course will focus on reading recent research exploring communities, activist movements, and methodologies for disability history in 20th century United States contexts. Readings will include: Sami Schalk, Black Disability Politics (2022); Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity (2021); Susan Burch, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (2021)

  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar, Th 6:00-8:00pm, 1-credit C/NC
  • DIS ST 535 A / ENGL 568 A Graduate Seminar in Disability Studies / Topics in Composition Studies, Stephanie Kerschbaum, MW 11:30-1:20 [counts as elective for DS Graduate Certificate, add codes from instructor]
    • Topic: "Access, Accessibility, and Writing"
  • SOC W 576 Contexts of Disability and Anti-Ableist Practice, Kayla Brown, F 11:30-2:20 [3 credits, counts as elective for DS grad and undergrad students]

Autumn 2022

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 A Introduction to Disability Studies, Joanne Woiak, Lecture MW 10:00-11:20, TTh quiz section. For add codes contact jwoiak@uw.edu. Hybrid format: quiz sections Thursdays online; Prerecorded Lectures Mondays; in-person & online Lectures Wednesdays.
  • DIS ST / GWSS / CHID / 335 A Sex, Gender, & Disability, Joanne Woiak, TTh 9:30-11:20, Hybrid format: in-person and online Tuesdays; online Thursdays.
  • DIS ST / LSJ / JSIS 346 Disability in Global & Comparative Perspective, Stephen Meyers, MW 10:30-12:20
  • DIS ST 501 Seminar on Critical Disability Studies Foundations, Heather Evans, MW 3:30-5:20
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar, Mark Harniss, Th 6:00-7:50pm, 1-credit C/NC
  • Some electives:
    • PHIL 409 Philosophy of Disability (5 credits, counts for Grad Certificate)
    • EDSPE 501 Foundations of Inclusive Education (3 credits, counts for Grad Certificate)
    • EDC&I 507 Teaching and Learning Toward Intersectional Justice, Rebecca Ray (3 credits, counts for Grad Certificate)

Summer 2022

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 Introduction to Disability Studies, Kristen Johnson, Summer A-Term, MTWR 9:40-12:20
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 430 and HSTCMP 490 Topics in Disability Studies: Disability History, Joanne Woiak, Summer A-Term, MTWR 1:50-4:00 [fulfills DS Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives]
  • DIS ST/ LSJ / CHID 332 Disability and Society: Disability Studies in Education, Jason Naranjo, Summer B-Term, MTWR 9:40-11:50 [fulfills DS Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]
  • Elective course [fulfills DS Subfield A Rights, Policies, Inequalities or Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity]:
    • EDUC 300 B Special Topics in Education: Race & Disability, Naomi Fair, Summer Full-term, 5 credits

Spring 2022

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 Introduction to Disability Studies, Joanne Woiak, MW lecture 10:00-11:20 plus Th quiz section. Contact jwoiak@uw.edu for add code.
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 332 A Disability & Society: Disability Studies, Feminist Theory & Representation. Ronnie Thibault, MW 11:30-1:20 [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity] Contact jwoiak@uw.edu for add code.
  • DIS ST 384 Topics in Disability Rights & Inequalities: Comparative International Human Rights Laws & Disability. Megan McCloskey. TTh 10:30-12:20. [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield A Rights, Policy, Inequality]
  • DIS ST / BH 421 History of Eugenics, Joanne Woiak, TTh 1:30-3:50 [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives; fulfills Grad Certificate elective]
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar,  Mark Harniss, Th 6:00-7:50pm, 1-credit C/NC. Contact mharniss@uw.edu for add code.
  • Some electives:
    • EDSPE 304 Disability and Ableism in Education, Sarah Arvey Tor, M 2:00-4:20, 3 credits
    • EDSPE 520 D: Seminar in Applied Special Education, topic "Intersectional Injustice," Maggie Beneke, Th 4:30-6:50 (3 credits) [fulfills Grad Certificate elective, for add code email edcodes@uw.edu, include your student number, course number, SLN]

Winter 2022

  • DIS ST 384 Topics in Disability Rights & Inequalities, Stephen Rosenbaum, MW 10:30-12:20. Topic: Decarceration, Deinstitutionalization, Discrimination, and Diseducation. [fulfills DS major/minor Subfield A Rights, Policy, Inequality]
  • DIS ST 419 / RUSS 340/543 Topics in Disability Studies: Russia's Big Books: Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Jose Alaniz, TWTHF 1030-1120 [fulfills VLPA credits; DS major/minor Subfield C Diversity, Representation, Identity; DS Graduate Certificate elective credits]
  • DIS ST / CHID / LSJ 430 A Topics in Disability Studies: Disability Histories, Joanne Woiak, MW 1:30-3:20, hybrid format [no prerequisites, fulfills DS major/minor Subfield B Global & Historical Perspectives]
  • DIS ST 501 Seminar on Critical Disability Studies Foundations, Joanne Woiak, TTh 3:30-5:20, primarily taught remote synchronous [if interested please contact jwoiak@uw.edu]
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar, Th 6:00-8:00pm, 1-credit C/NC, remote synchronous
  • SOC W 576 Contexts of Disability and Anti-Ableist Practice, Kayla Brown, F 11:30-2:20 [open to DS grad and undergrad students, fill out the SSW Winter waitlist request here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/sswstsrv/414740. ]

Autumn 2021

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 A Introduction to Disability Studies, Heather D. Evans, Lecture MW 10:00-11:20, TTh quiz section
  • DIS ST / CHID / LSJ 332 B Disability & Society: Redesigning Humanity: Science Fiction and the Future of the Body, Joanne Woiak, TTh 11:30-1:20
  • DIS ST / LSJ / JSIS 346 Disability in Global & Comparative Perspective, Stephen Meyers, MW 10:30-12:20, 
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 434 A Civil and Human Rights Law for Disabled People, Megan McCloskey, TTh 1:30-3:20
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar,  Mark Harniss, Th 6:00-7:50pm, 1-credit C/NC

Summer 2021

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 Introduction to Disability Studies, Kristen Johnson, A-Term, MTWR 9:40-12:20
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 332 Disability and Society: Disability Studies and Education, Jason Naranjo, B-Term, MTWR 9:40-12:20

Spring 2021

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 Introduction to Disability Studies, Joanne Woiak, MW 10:00-11:20 (remote asynchronous lecture), plus Th quiz section (remote synchronous)
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 332 Disability & Society: Trauma Studies and Disability, Kristen Johnson, MW 11:30-1:20 (remote synchronous with a blended approach)
  • DIS ST / CHID / SOC 337 Social Construction of Madness and Mental Health in the United States, Heather D. Evans, 8:30-10:20am (remote synchronous), plus W quiz section (remote synchronous)
  • DIS ST / BH 421 History of Eugenics, Joanne Woiak, TTh 1:30-3:50 (remote Tues asynchronous, Thurs synchronous)
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar,  Mark Harniss, Th 6:00-7:50pm, 1-credit C/NC (remote synchronous, contact mharniss@uw.edu for add code)
  • DIS ST 501 Advanced Seminar: Critical Disability Studies Foundations, Heather Evans, MW 3:30-5:20 (remote synchronous) 

Winter 2021

  • DIS ST / CHID / GWSS 335 Sex, Gender, and Disability, Joanne Woiak, TTh, 12:30-2:20, remote [email Joanne jwoiak@uw.edu for an add code if you are a DS major/minor]
  • DIS ST / LSJ / JSIS 346 Disability in Global & Comparative Perspective, Stephen Meyers, MW 12:30-2:20, remote
  • DIS ST / CHID / LSJ 433 Disability Law, Policy & the Community, Mark Harniss & Kurt Johnson, MW 10:30-12:20, remote
  • DIS ST 503 Graduate Writing Seminar, Th 6:00-8:00pm, remote, 1-credit C/NC [contact jwoiak@uw.edu if you are interested]
  • SOC W 576 Contexts of Disability and Anti-Ableist Practice, Seema Bahl, F 11:30-2:20, remote [open to DS grad and undergrad students]

Autumn 2020

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 A Introduction to Disability Studies, Joanne Woiak, Lecture MW 10:00-11:20, TTh quiz section  [remote instruction]
  • DIS ST / CHID / SOC 235 A Representations of Disability in Popular Culture, Heather D Evans, Lecture TTh 10:30-11:50, MW quiz section
  • DIS ST / CHID 430 A Topics in Disability Studies: Disability Histories, Joanne Woiak, MW 2:30-4:20 [remote instruction, no prerequisites, W credit]
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 434 A Civil and Human Rights Law for Disabled People, Stephen Rosenbaum, TTh 1:30-3:20 [remote synchronous instruction]

Summer 2020

  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 230 A Introduction to Disability Studies, Kristen Johnson, A-Term, M-Th 9:40-12:20
  • DIS ST / LSJ / CHID 332 A Disability and Society: Disability Studies and Education, Jason Naranjo, B-Term, M-Th 9:40-12:20

     

    NOTE: If you have any questions about DIS ST course offerings & add codes, email Joanne Woiak.