Summer Graduate Course: DIS 687 Representations of Disability

Please forgive cross-postings. The Center on Disability Studies is excited
to welcome Dr. Raphael Raphael to our team of instructors presenting courses
in our online graduate Certificate program in Disability and Diversity
Studies. Faculty members as well as students welcome. See below for an
explanation of this course and how to enroll. Attachment included for groups
that can open them.
Thanks,
Steve


Instructor: Dr. Raphael Raphael


Cinema has long carried on a love affair with disability. This love affair
has been a deeply ambivalent one,

with the disabled portrayed alternately as saints or monsters, asexual or
hyper-sexual, as both objects of

fear and attraction. It is the intent of this course to interrogate these
contradictions. Students in this

online course will view and respond to a series of films about disability
with the following aims: (1) to

interrogate their own assumptions about disability; (2) to deepen their
historical understanding of the

ways in which the "grammar" of film has shaped depictions of disability; and
(3) to consider the ways in

which these images may dialog with the ways we think about disability. Films
viewed include: Freaks,

Coming Home, The Elephant Man, Crash, There's Something About Mary and The
Station Agent.

This course is intended for students across disciplines, including social
work, psychology, public health,

law, nursing, political science, and especially education. It is presented
in an online, asynchronous

format designed to accommodate the schedules of working professionals.

This 3-credit graduate seminar is *available completely online *as part of
the Center on Disability

Studies 15-credit Certificate in Disability and Diversity Studies.

*( **http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/main/ads/certificateprogram/ **)*

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*------------------Registration Information----------------*

*Now open for registration: students from any university are welcome to
attend.*

*(1) UH students:*

*Course is listed on online schedule of courses under "Summer Extension
2010" *

***http://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=201043&s=DIS*

* Current UH Manoa students may register now over*

*MyUH registration system (**http://myuh.hawaii.edu**).*

*(2) Students from all other universities:*

*New students will first need to complete an Outreach College application
form (http://*

*www.outreach.hawaii.edu/summer/myuh/apply.asp**) before they will be able
to register. Application*

*processing takes 5 working days. Once the application has been processed,
students will be notified*

*and will then be able to log into MyUH to register.*

*Course Information: DIS 687 (section: 441) Course Reference No.: 4167
5/24-7/2/2010*

*Cost: $1116*

Questions about this course may be directed to:rraphael@hawaii.edu


--
Steven E. Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center on Disability Studies
www.cds.hawaii.edu
1776 University Ave., UA4-6
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-0996
808-956-7878 (fax)
Skype:  stevenebrown
Twitter:  disculture
Co-Founder: Institute on Disability Culture
http://www.instituteondisabilityculture.org

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