Disability Studies (CAM-UY 2204)

This undergraduate experiential, project-based course involves participatory research with a person living with a disability. Enhanced with readings, guest lectures, videos and field trips, it culminates with person-centered digital stories (no video experience required!). Students learn about disability history, assistive technology, universal design and themselves. We make the “invisible visible.” Disability Studies serves as a core course for the NYU cross-school Dis Studies minor. Requirement: completion of first-year writing.

This course was developed by Allan Goldstein who has won the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award (2018-2018), the 2012 Jacobs Excellence in Education Award, and was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s inaugural list of Teaching Innovators (2017). Outcomes from this course have been published in 2015 in the Information Systems Education Journal and featured in a 2015 NY Observer Article.  

This class was featured on PIX 11 News (2 minute video).

The Ability Exchange, a documentary film about this class, was created by Bing Wang in 2016 and is available through Amazon Streaming.