DIS STD M172Care Work: Disability Justice and Health Care
Disability Studies · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Nursing M172.) Exploration of nature, history, models, and propositions of care, care work, disability, disability justice movement, and health care. Consideration of intersections, interdependence, and complexities of formal and informal care webs and care economies between caregivers and receivers, which includes kin, advocates, disability communities, and health professionals. Use of multi-media, scholarly texts, and theoretical frameworks from disability justice, disability studies, film, gender studies, health, labor studies, law, nursing, and public policy to investigate the concepts of care and care work.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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 M172
- DIS STD M172XPCare Work: Disability Justice and Health Care
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.