About Course
Disability Studies
This is a high-level overview of the new topic of disability studies. Disability studies is a multidisciplinary field that incorporates literature, political theory, and assistive technology.
Course Plan
PLAN OF STUDY:
Week 1: Getting Started Parts 1&2 of the Social Model of Disability, Medical Model of Disability, and Disability Definition: An Evolving Phenomenon Stigma: A Universal Phenomenon, Disability and Stigma
Week 2: Key Concepts, Parts 1&2 of Ableism Disability Models, Disability Activism Interdependence, Activism, and Dependency
Week 3: Key Concepts: Blindness, the metaphor of blindness, Eugenics, Disability Pride, Disability Resilience, and Disability Passing
Week 4: Disabilities, Ideas, and Disciplines: Assistive Technology: An Interview with Prof. Madhusudan Rao, Disability and Ethnography: An Interview with Prof. Madhusudan Rao,
Week 5: Disabilities, Ideas, and Disciplines: Assistive Technology: An Interview with Prof. Madhusudan Rao, Prof. James Staple is interviewed.
Week 6: Ideas, and Disciplines Gender and Disability: An Interview with Prof Tanya Titchkosky, Dyslexia and the Modern University
Course Content
An interview with Dr Satyendra Singh
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An interview with Dr Shubha Ranganathan
54:21 -
An interview with Dr Sona Kazemi
58:47 -
Blindness as Tapas
29:32 -
Disability and Fiction
29:47 -
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
01:02:43 -
Dr Garimella Subramaniam
01:12:01 -
Dr Sheela Lakshmi
01:18:36 -
mod01lec01 – Disability Definition: An Evolving Phenomenon
27:53 -
mod01lec02 – Medical Model of Disability
25:06 -
mod01lec03 – Social Model of Disability: Part 1
24:28 -
mod01lec04 – Social Model of Disability: Part 2
25:01 -
mod01lec05 – Stigma: A Universal Phenomenon
00:00 -
mod01lec06 – Stigma and Disability: What can we learn?
24:12 -
mod02lec07 – Ableism: Part 1
22:38 -
mod02lec08 – Ableism: Part 2
27:35 -
mod02lec09 – Disability Activism
28:37 -
mod02lec10 – Models of Disability Activism
29:52 -
mod02lec11 – Dependency
31:46 -
mod02lec12 – Interdependence
29:53 -
mod03lec13 – Blindness
27:26 -
mod03lec14 – Blindness as metaphor
28:04 -
mod03lec15 – Eugenics
28:09 -
mod03lec16 – Disability Pride
29:04 -
mod03lec17 – Disability Resilience
31:30 -
mod03lec18 – Disability Passing: The musings of the blue Jackal
27:21 -
mod03lec19 – Coming out: A performance in disability inhabitation
28:28 -
mod04lec20 – Assistive Technology: An interview with Prof. Madhusudan Rao
59:44 -
mod04lec21 – Disability and Ethnography: An Interview with Prof. James Staple
56:46 -
mod05lec22 – Schizophrenia: A Personal Account – An interview with Reshma Valliappan
01:03:14 -
mod05lec23 – Autism and the Indian Family: An interview with Dr. Shubhangi Vaidhya
59:00 -
mod06lec24 – Dyslexia and the Modern University: An Interview with Prof. Tanya Titchkosky
56:10 -
mod06lec25 – Gender and Disability: Interviews with Prof. Anita Ghai
43:50 -
mod06lec26 – Gender and Disability: Interviews with Prof. Nandini Ghosh
36:49 -
mod07lec27 – The Normal and its End: An interview with Prof. Lennard Davis – Part 1
29:11 -
mod07lec28 – The Normal and its End – Part 2
25:47 -
mod07lec29 – Literary Disability Studies: An Interview with Dr. Shilpa Anand
54:56 -
mod07lec30 – What is Deaf Culture? An Interview with Dr. Michele Friedner
52:45 -
mod08lec31 – Disability and Life Writing
27:06 -
mod08lec32 – Disability and Metaphor
30:29 -
mod08lec33 – Conclusion
18:33