Self and Civic Life

Catalog description

Prerequisites: Admission to OIPE program. This course is an introduction to techniques and tools grounded in community organizing and advocacy theory that can be used to strengthen individual and systems advocacy efforts. The course examines tools and strategies through disability culture and the history of the disability rights movement through an intersectional lens and provides students with a strong understanding of the meaning and impact of disability culture. Students will gain applicable strategies to successfully advocate and utilize public narrative as a change-making tool.