Disability Studies Minor at UC Berkeley

Disability Studies at UCB provides leadership and training for students, faculty, staff and community members.

Disability studies provides a space to explore questions like these: How has disability been defined in various historical moments, in various cultures and eras? While impairment has unquestionably been a frequent experience throughout human history, has disability—the construction of impairment as a generic social category -- been a historical constant, or is it a modern invention? What social ideologies, cultural systems, and societal arrangements have shaped the meaning and experience of disability? How has disability been defined or represented in cultural and artistic productions, public laws and policies, modern professional practices and in everyday life?

DISABILITY STUDIES WORK INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY!

Help develop Disability Studies at Cal & strengthen our connections to the disability community!

The disability studies program is looking for a "student scholar" to assist this year in the development of a disability studies internship course as part of the UC Berkeley's Faculty Program for Engaged Scholarship. As a Scholar in this program, you would be trained to provide intensive support to Professor Schweik in the development of a community-based internship course to be offered in the Fall of 2009. For more information, click here

The field also explores how to best meet the challenges and alleviate the problems of those with impairments or disabilities, with emphasis on the role of those affected in defining problems and evaluating solutions.