Courses

Core Courses (2 courses):

A. UGIS 110: Introduction to Disability Studies (offered in F 22)
B. English 175: Literature and Disability (offered in F 22) OR Anthropology 189: Special Topics/Cultural Anthropology: Disability, Ethnography and Design (offered in F 21), OR English 180A: Disability Memoir OR City and Regional Planning 120: Community Planning and Public Policy for Disability OR ESPM 149: Bodies, Difference, and the Environment. These courses may also be used for electives.

Core Courses Offered in Summer 2022

ENGLISH 175: Literature and Disability (Summer Session C)

What can the history of theater tell us about the history of disability — and vice versa? This question will guide our readings and our conversations as we explore the complex relationships between disability and performance in plays ranging from classical tragedy to the modern musical. Though we will focus on the representation of disabled characters, we will also take up broader questions of embodiment, race, gender, aesthetics, casting, ethics, drama therapy, and commercialism. Readings will include plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Suzan-Lori Parks, Amy Herzog, Neil LaBute, and others. More information can be found here: https://english.berkeley.edu/courses/7658

Feel free to email the instructor, Miles Drawdy (msdrawdy@berkeley.edu), with any questions.

Core Courses offered in Spring 2022 (each may also be used as an elective):

ENGLISH 175: Literature and Disability: Helen Keller and Her Cultural Legacies, taught by Lucy Sirianni (MWF 10-10:59 AM)
ANTH 115 01 Introduction to Medical Anthropology, by Karen Nakamura (T Th 9:30-10:59) –core course for this semester only
UGIS 112 001 Women and Disability (TH 5-7:59 pm), instructor is TBD – core course for this semester only
ESPM 150: Special Topics: Bodies, Difference, and the Environment.

Approved Electives for Spring 2022:

ANTH 115 01 Introduction to Medical Anthropology (T Th 9:30-10:59)
ART 118 001-STD 001 Advanced Drawing: Remixing the Figure (M-W 9-10:59)
CHICANO 176 001 Chicanos and Health Care (MWF 11-11:59)
CYPLAN 117AC 001 – LEC 001 Urban and Community Health (M 4-6:59 pm)
EDUC 188F 001-LEC 001 Language, Race, and Power in Education (T Th 11-12:29)
ENGLISH 175: Literature and Disability: Helen Keller and Her Cultural Legacies, taught by Lucy Sirianni (MWF 10-10:59 AM)
ETHSTD 103C 001 – SEM 001 Proseminar: Deconstructing Race-Based Medicine and Health Inequities (M W 5-6:29)
GWS 111 001 – LEC 001 Reproduction, Migration, Death and Climate in a Low Fertility World (T Th 5-6:30)
GWS C180Y 001 – LEC 001 Gender, Sex and Power (T Th 11-12:29)
HISTART 190D 001 – LEC 001 15th-16th Century: Warburg’s Archives in Berkeley: New Perspectives on Renaissance and Baroque Art (T Th 12:30-2)
HUM 196-001 Mentored Research: Remembering Eugenics at Berkeley and in California (Th 3:30-6:29 PM)
LEGALST 154 001 – LEC 001 Human Rights, Research and Practice (T Th 2-3:29)
LEGALST 159 001-Lect 001 Law & Sexuality (T Th 2-3:30)
LINGUIS 1B 001 American Sign Language II (T Th 8-9:59)
LINGUIS 1B 002 American Sign Language II (T Th 12-1:59)
MEDIAST 190 001 – LEC 001 Beauty, Gender and Race in Global Popular Culture (MW 12-1:59)
PBHLTH 116 001 – LEC 001 Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine (M 4-5:59)
PBHLTH 126 001 – LEC 001 Health Economics and Public Policy (T Th 8-9:29)
PBHLTH 150E 001 – LEC 001 Introduction to Community Health and Human Development (M 4-6:59)
PBHLTH C160 001 – LEC 001 Environmental Health and Development (T Th 9:30-10:59)
SOCIOL C115 001 – LEC 001 Sociology of Health and Medicine (T Th 12:30-1:59)
UGIS 112 001 Women and Disability (TH 5-7:59 pm)

Courses of Special Interest for Disability Studies minors in Fall 2021

These courses meet DS minor elective requirements

ANTHRO 196 004: Mental Health in Conflict Zones: The Politics of Trauma on
the Border of Israel and Gaza
ART 118: Advanced Drawing: Remixing the Figure
ASAMST 143AC: Asian American Health
CYPLAN 117AC: Urban & Community Health
CYPLAN 218: Transportation Planning Studio
EN 166 03—Special Topics: Race, Social Class, Writing, and Difference
ETHST 190AC: Inside and Beyond Walls: Migra, Masses and the Cultural State
GLOBAL 173: International Human Rights
GWS 129: Bodies and Boundaries
GWS 133AC: Women, Men, and Other Animals: Human Animality in American Cultures
LDARCH 140: Social and Psychological Factors in Open Space Design
LGBT 100: Trans Study
LEGALST 137: Comparative Equality Law
LINGUIS 1A/001, 002: American Sign Language I
MEDIAST 190-02: Special Topics: Beauty, Intersectionality, and Globalization
PB HLTH 116: Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
SOCIOL 113AC: Sociology of Education
SOCIOL 137AC 001: Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment

MASTER LIST OF APPROVED ELECTIVES

Anthropology 115: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Anthropology 119: Special Topics in Medical Anthropology
Architecture 169: Special Topics in Construction Materials (when Introduction to ADA and Universal Design)
Architecture 269: Special Topics in Construction and Materials (when Introduction to ADA and Universal Design)
Art 160: Designing and Activating Public Space (POSSIBLE TO USE WITH SPECIAL APPROVAL)
Art 165: Art, Medicine, and Disabilities
Chicano 176: Chicanos and Health Care
Computer Science 160: User Interface Design and Development
EALANG 114: Illness Narratives, Vulnerable Bodies
Economics 157: Health Economics
English 80K: Children’s Literature (when taught by Charles F.S. Creasy)
English 135AC: Race, Ethnicity, and Disability in Literature
English 165: “The Visible Made Verbal: Audio Description Across the Arts.”
ESPM 162A: Health, Medicine, Society and Environment
ESPM 254: Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Health Status
ESPM C282: Health Implications of Climate Change
GLOBAL 173 International Human Rights
GWS 100AC: Women in American Culture (when taught by Barbara Barnes)
GWS 111: Special Topics (when topic is Disability Justice or Women with Disability in Film and Literature)
GWS 129: Bodies and Boundaries
GWS 130AC: Gender, Race, Nation, and Health
GWS 131: Gender and Science
GWS 133AC: Women, Men, and Other Animals: Human Animality in American Cultures
ITALIAN 120:Topics in Italian Studies (when the topic is Disability, Difference and Desire in Italian Fiction and Film)
Legal Studies 159: Law and Sexuality
LD ARCH 140: Social and Psychological Factors in Open Space Design
LINGUIS 1A: American Sign Language I
LINGUIS 1B: American Sign Language II
LINGUIS 2A: American Sign Language 3
PACS 148AC: Social Movements, Urban Histories, and the Politics of Memory
PB HLTH 116: Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
Public Health 126: Health Economics and Public Policy
Public Health 130: Advanced Health Policy
PB HLTH 150D: Introduction to Health Policy and Management
PB HLTH 150E: Introduction to Community Health and Human Development
Public Health 226: Global Health Economics
Public Health 290 003: Health Issues Seminars: Bioethics from Nuremberg to Modern Times
Public Health 150E: Introduction to Community Health and Human Development
Public Health 222A: Health Care Technology Policy
PB HLTH 290: Health Issues Seminars
Public Policy 200: Introduction to Policy Analysis
Psychology 131: Developmental Psychopathology
SOC WEL 210C: Community Planning and Public Policy for DisabilityAging Processes
SOC WEL 245: Direct Practice in Health Settings
SOC WEL 246: Direct Practice in Aging Settings
SOC WEL 275: Diversity-Sensitive and Competent Social Work
UGIS 112: Women and Disability
UGIS 113: Disability Studies in Practice
Sociology C115: Sociology of Health and Medicine
Social Welfare 250L: Human Sexuality

All upper-division courses used in satisfaction of the Minor Program must be taken for a letter grade, with the exception of Public Health 116, which may be taken P/NP. The student must achieve at least a C average (2.0) in the upper-division courses offered in satisfaction of a Minor Program. Linguistics 1A, 1B, and 2A are lower-division courses which may be used for the minor.

Disability Studies