Existing Courses
Our schools currently offer 32 courses in Disability Studies or relating to disabilities, which is certainly more than enough to make a minor! (Many of our existing minors require that students take only 6 courses).
However, the issue is that most of the Bi-Co courses are offered sporadically. For example, at Bryn Mawr, most courses in Disability Studies are offered for only a year or two, despite ample student interest (courses sometimes have long waitlists). Additionally, Swarthmore courses are often not available to Bi-Co students because of lotteries. Lastly, the Tri-Co does not currently have any introductory courses in Disability Studies. To create a minor, we need core courses, and they need to be regularly offered.
Disability Studies is very interdisciplinary, so courses are offered by a diverse range of departments. Many existing courses do not focus on disabilities or Disability Studies, but rather incorporate such topics into other units.
Some example courses are below, and here is a full list of currently and recently offered courses.
- Critical Disability Studies at Haverford (Bi-Co Health Studies)
- Diverse Young Learners (Swarthmore Educational Studies)
- Choreographing Disability (Swarthmore Dance department)
- Materializing Disability (Bryn Mawr English department)
- Unruly Bodies: Narratives Of Disability In Greece And Rome (cross-listed in Haverford’s Comparative Literature and Classics departments and in Bi-Co Health Studies)
- Clinical Psychology (Bryn Mawr’s Psychology department)
- Courses in American Sign Language at Swarthmore (Linguistics)