Disability Studies

The Disability Studies minor provides a space to explore questions such as 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 everyday life?

Declaring the Minor

Students may declare the minor by submitting the Minor Declaration Form below once they have completed three minor courses, including a core course, no later than the term before their Expected Graduation Term (EGT). In your final semester, students need to submit the Minor Completion Form via email to michellerh@berkeley.edu.

No later than the semester before your Expected Graduation Term (EGT) semester, please submit the following form:

* Disability Studies Minor Declaration Form

In your final semester, please submit the following documents: 

* Completion of L&S Minor Form - Please be sure to have your major advisor sign page 2 of the Completion of L&S Minor form acknowledging that you are sharing no more than one class between your major and the minor.

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