{"id":12669,"date":"2018-06-14T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?page_id=12669"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:49:34","slug":"disability-studies-minor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/disability-studies-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Studies (Minor)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines disability as a social, political, cultural, and historical experience\u2014not just a medical issue. It explores how disability intersects with race, gender, class, and sexuality. The field prepares students for careers in advocacy, accessibility, policy, education, community work, and roles focused on equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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The Disability Studies Minor offers students an opportunity to study disability as a category of analysis from an interdisciplinary approach. Students will be exposed to cutting edge theories, methodologies, and debates that explore disability from historical, cultural, political, economic, and social perspectives. Examples of areas of research interests will include disability and the law, disability and theories of sexuality, disability and policy, disability activism, disability movements (local and transnational), disability and race, and disability in literature and art. Disability Studies is an exciting and growing field with endless possibilities for learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minor consists of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n