Handbook

Subject Area: Arts
This course can be studied as a Free Elective or Arts & Social Sciences Prescribed Elective in a single or dual Arts & Social Sciences program or as a General Education or Free Elective in a non-Arts & Social Sciences program.

With 20% of the world’s population having a disability, most of you will have a connection to disability at some point in your lives. Despite this, disability, disability policy and disability support are often stigmatised, misunderstood and invisible. In this course you will think about what disability means in your personal, professional and social worlds. You will explore how disability is represented in the world around you (in the built environment, media, technology and policy) and develop critical ways of thinking about this. You will be asked to consider questions about what it means to be human and what it means to have a good life. This is a fully online course. You will use rich online resources, which include short films and life stories of people with disabilities, podcasts, blogs, expert documentaries and video lectures. You will also actively engage in critical thinking and reflecting skills, which will improve your approach to academic learning and writing well beyond this course.