DIS STD 101WPerspectives on Disability Studies
Disability Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 101. 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. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Summer 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: English Composition 3.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
DIS STD 101W
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
1 direct requisite. Showing 4 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
DIS STD 101W
- 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.