DIS STD 101
Perspectives on Disability Studies
Disability Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 101W. Creation of critical framework for understanding concept of disability from sampling of disciplinary perspectives. Organized around productive and central tension in disability studies—between disability as lived subjective experience that is both individual and communal, and disability as objective, medical, legal, and sometimes stigmatized category. Students encouraged to make connections between units and to create their own perspectives on disability in field that defines itself by how it changes.
Letter grading.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
DIS STD 101
- DIS STD M171Philanthropy: Confronting Challenges of Serving Disabled
- DIS STD 191Variable Topics Senior Research Seminars: Disability Studies
- HNRS M170Philanthropy: Confronting Challenges of Serving Disabled
- DIS STD 195CECommunity and Corporate Internships in Disability Studies
- DIS STD 194Capstone Research Seminar
- DIS STD 198AHonors Research in Disability Studies
- DIS STD 198BHonors Research in Disability Studies
- DIS STD 199ADirected Research in Disability Studies
- DIS STD 199BDirected Research in Disability Studies
6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 9 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.





