Disability minor course catalog
2026-27 Catalog
Coordinator: Catherine Webb, Associate Professor (Communication Sciences and Disorders), B.A., Augustana College; M.S., Nazareth College; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Requirements (Disability Minor)
20-22 credits
Required credits: 6
Elective credits: 14-16
Required courses
- DISA 200 (PH, D) Disability and Society (4 credits; offered Spring)
DISA 400 Capstone** (2 credits; offered Fall)
**Must have completed 14 credits toward the minor, including DISA 200, prior to taking DISA400
Electives
- No more than two courses may be taken per course code.
- At least 4 credits of electives must be at the 300/400 level.
Group A: Classes most closely connected to disability & disability studies. These courses explicitly teach about disability at some point in the class and/or take a critical theory perspective, considering how or why things are done the way they are and how they might be made more equitable.
Students must take 2 courses.
- CSD 100 (PS) Human Communication: Disability, Difference, and Disorder
- EDUC 340 Methods of Inclusion
- ENGL 295 (PH, G) Disability in/and Asian American Literature
- ESGE 323 (D) Urban Planning
- HIST 333 (PP) Disease & Health
- MUSC 344 (PH) Creative Therapies
- PSYC 180/180J Psychology of Activism
- PSYC 480 Community Psychology
- PUBH 273 (PH, D) Reproductive Justice
- RELG 216 (REF) Disability and Religion
- RELG 263/363 (PH) Sexual Ethics
- SOAN 327 (PS, D) Gender in Society
- SOAN 344 (PS) Crimes of the Powerful
- THEA 220 Collaborative Acts ( with Coussens)
- WGSS 350 (PL, D) Queer Theories
Group B: Classes with a focus more widely on health or impacts of specific disabilities. These courses may talk about the impacts of specific disabilities and/or discuss health disparities, including the way that outside factors (e.g. environment, attitudes) impact health or wellbeing.
Students take one course.
- COMM 220 Communication and Social Relationships
- CSD 405 Aural Rehabilitation
- ESGE 223 (D) Intro to Urban Studies
- ESGE 225 (PN) Weather & Climate - Required lab (ESGE 225L)
- ESGE 387 Environmental Justice
- MUSC 104 Music and the Brain
- PUBH 100 (PS) Introduction to Public Health
- PUBH 180 (PS, D) Health Disparities
- PSYC 224 Psychological Disorders
- PSYC 228 (D) The Psychology of Prejudice
- PSYC 346 Advanced Development
- SOAN 324 (PS, G) Anthropology of Global Health
WGSS 130 (PS) Intro to Gender Studies
Group C: Classes with a more medical focus or a broader perspective and disability or health. These courses may be more focused on medical perspectives, including things healthcare workers should know about people with impairments. Courses may take a broader look at disability and/or health but generally do not explore disability from an identity or social model perspective, focusing instead on medical or historical perspectives.
Students take one course.
- ARHI 377 Art, Medicine, and Healing
- CLAS 258 Greek Warrior Myths & Combat Trauma
- COMM 250 Health Communications
- CSD 410 Neural Bases of Communication
- ENGL 125M (PH) Lit and Medicine
- ENGL 292 (PL) Illness Narratives
- MED-H 200 (PH) Applied Concepts in Healthcare
- PHIL 105 (PH) Life and Death
- PHIL 312 (PH) Philosophy of Medicine
- PSYC 181 Takes of Brain Injury
- RELG 355 (PH) Medical Ethics