How has this course impacted your understanding of your relationship to disability?

How has this course impacted your understanding of your relationship to disability? What aspects of the course were most supportive of your learning? What should the course continue to emphasize or emphasize further? What was not helpful in this course and should be reconsidered?

Throughout this course, we have explored several key concepts and issues related to Disability Studies. This week provides you with an opportunity to critically reflect on the main areas of focus for the course and how your perspectives and understanding of disability may have shifted throughout exploring the main learning goals of this course.

Here is a reminder of the five key areas we focused on throughout this course.

  1. Representations of disability in language, culture, and the media
  2. Experiences of disabled people (i.e., the work of activists, artists, scholars)
  3. Disability and its intersections
  4. Disability rights in Canadian and international contexts
  5. Disability and how it is addressed within your home discipline