Courses

Our research indicates that these courses include critical disability studies perspectives in their curricula. If you are an instructor/faculty and would like your upcoming class included on this list, please contact us. 

Spring 2026

Fall 2024  

ANTH 3980/5980: Disability Worlds
Instructor: Erin Durban | Online, Asynchronous | Open to undergraduate and graduate students

Disability anthropology forges new paths away from the objectification of “disability” towards exploration of what situationally-shifting disability perspectives and expertise can offer ethnographic inquiry. This course will provide a history of anthropology and
disability, with the reading orienting to recent work and new directions in disability anthropology that approaches disability through a sociocultural, rather than medical, analysis. This field is dynamically intertwined with interdisciplinary critical disability studies and informed by disability justice activism, feminist and queer theory, and anti-racist and decolonial scholarship.

BTHX 5650: Disability Ethics
Instructor: Jamie Konerman-Sease | Tuesdays, 1 - 3:30 pm | Remote

Our cross-disciplinary courses provide uniquely engaging experiences built upon robust and respectful dialogue that fosters deeper understanding of ethical issues.  Our courses are designed for graduate and professional students but are open to upper-level undergraduate and non-degree seeking students. 

FREN 1501/1502: Gateways to French and Francophone Studies 
Instructor: Jennifer Row | Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:45 pm | Folwell Hall 108

Bilingual (English or French). Whose bodies are deemed “disposable” and why? How is race, disability, and sexuality represented in these texts, and how do writers from diverse backgrounds draw upon their experiences to reach new creative horizons? 
 
LAW 6909: Abolition and the Carceral State
Instructor: Susanna Blumenthal | Tuesdays, 1:25 - 3:30 pm | Mondale Hall 473

Using the lens of abolitionist thought, this course will explore the past, present, and future of the carceral state. It will place the present-day movements to abolish police and prisons in historical perspective and explore the ways history has been used by activists in pursuit of racial justice and social equality. The work of the course will include archival research and students will have the opportunity to engage with scholars, advocates, and community organizations as they formulate and carry out their projects. Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: HIST 8646

Spring 2024  

• GWSS 3215: Bodies that Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies
• ARTH 5950: Curating Disability Justice

Fall 2023 

• FRENCH 1501/1502: Gateways to French Studies: Race, Sexuality and Disability
• ENGL 3461: Disability Narratives
• FREN 3650: Topics in French/Francophone Cultures: Disability and Medicine in French Graphic Novels
• HSPH 5001: Disability Justice and Cultural Heritage
• ARTH 5576: Outsiders in American Art
• LAW 6909: Abolition & the Carceral State

Summer 2023

• GEOG 3381W: Population in an Interacting World

Spring 2023 

• FRENCH 1501/1502: Gateways to French Studies: Race, Sexuality and Disability
• ENGL 3090: Reframing American Eugenics
• ENGL 3461: Disability Narratives
• GWSS 8210: Seminar: Feminist Theory and Practice
• WRIT 85501: Seminar: Embodied Politics
• AMST 8920: Autoethnography: Feminist, Queer, and Decolonial Approaches

Fall 2022 

• LAW 6909: Abolition & the Carceral State
• FRENCH 1501/1502: Gateways to French Studies: Race, Sexuality and Disability 

Spring 2022

• GWSS 3215: Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies
• DES 4160/5170 Special Topics in Design Justice*: Disability, Racism, & The Intersections of Design Justice