Note: This set of weekly topics, readings, and viewing material is provisional and may change. You are responsible for checking the online syllabus weekly for updated reading and viewing assignments (be sure to refresh your browser to see the most recent version). Readings are due before the class and participants are required to post responses to discussion prompts or assignments on CANVAS by Monday at noon.

ER = Text and Film on EReservses • LC= Electronic Texts or Film in Library Catalog • CV= Text or Film on Canvas • GD = Film or Video on Course Google Drive

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Week One (March 31 & April 2):  Introduction | Models and Meanings of [Dis]Ability

Tues (3/31):

• Course overview & Introduction to considering how ability is mediated.
• Read in Class:
  • Neil Marcus, "Disabled Country" (Poem) https://everybody.si.edu/place or http://desispeaks.com/neil-marcus/
• View in Class:
  • Clips from ER episode featuring Artist & Poet Neil Marcus (1995)
  • Clip from Breaking Bad Pilot Episod
  • Clip from The Key of G, (Robert Arnold, USA, 2006)
    
  
  

Thurs (4/2): Identity, Norms and Medicalizaton

• Read
  • Simi Linton, "Reassigning Meaning," ( "Reclamation" is optional )in Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (NYU Press, 1998) LC, CA
  • Lennard Davis, "Normality, Power, and Culture" in The Disability Studies Reader (Routledge, 2014) CA
  • "Medicalization", "Disability" and "Ability" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, CA
• View before class:
  • When Billy Broke His Head (Billy Golfus and David Simpson, USA, 1995) ER, CA, GD
  • Optional: An Invitation to Dance (Christian von Tippelskirch and Simi Linton, US, 2014, 86 min) ER

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Week Two (April 7 & 9): Representing Disability: Horrors/Pleasures of Difference and Disfigurement

Tues:

• Read:
  • Jack Nelson, "Broken Images: Portrayals of Those with Disabilities in American Media," The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, Ed, Jack Nelson (pp 1-24) CV
  • David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, "Ch1: Representation and Its Discontents" in Narrative Prosthesis (2000, U Michigan Press) LC, CV
• View: Becoming Bulletproof (2014) (Subtitles)CV and GD

Thurs

• Read:

• Petra Kuppers, "Freaks, Stages, and Medical Theaters, " Disability and Contemporary Performance CV
• View: Todd Browning (USA, 1932), Freaks ER CV and GD

Optional Viewing:

Elephant Man (David Lynch 1980) CV and GD

Interview with Matt Fraser ("Seal Boy") https://youtu.be/G2zR0vgESBo

Interview with Jyoti Amge https://youtu.be/Jk6kfXIZ58k

Interfview with Rose Siggins https://youtu.be/asvYF-KLs-k

Clips shown in class:

• David Lynch, The Elephant Man
• Jennifer Miller, "Woman with a beard", http://youtu.be/Z0K0-SDX-E0
• Matt Fraser, Interview on Youtube
• Tami Gold , Juggling Gender (1992) Documentary about Jennifer Miller--Available in Arts Library
• Mr. Angel, http://youtu.be/GauYbTmalo4

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Three (April 14 &16): Language, Talking, and Describing

Read:

• Tues:
  • Mairian Corker, "Disability Politics, Language Planning and Inclusive Social Policy," in Disability & Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2000 CV
  • Charles Riley II, "Apendix: Guidelines for Portraying People with Disabilities in the Media," in Disability and the Media Prescriptions for Change CV
  • Podcast: PRI audio program, "The language of disability in Ukrainian, Persian and Uzbek" (11 min) https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-09-07/describing-disability-language-differences-challenge-even-best-intentioned
  • Keywords: "Communication" "Blindness" "Deafness" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, CV
• Thurs:
  • Georgina Kleege, "Audio Description Described," in Representations, Vol. 135 No. 1, 2016 CV
  • Joel Snyder, "Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal, " in The International Journal of The Arts In Society, Vol 2, 2007 CV

  • Sharon Marcus, Heather Love, and Stephen Best, "Building a Better Description," in Representations, Vol. 135 No. 1, 2016 CV
  • Optional: James Valentine, "Naming and Narrating Disability in Japan" CV

View:

• The Sessions (streaming via UCSD course reserves, CANVAS or Google Drive) I have also added a verison with audio description--after watching the whole film please watch at lease a couple of scenes from this version with your eyes closed.
• Deaf Jam (available through UCSD library and Kanopy) permanent link: http://roger.ucsd.edu/record=b9079234~S3
• Optional Viewing:
• Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996, documentary) on Google Drive and CANVAS
• Cinema for the blind: Ewa Marcinek at TEDxWroclaw https://youtu.be/ko32Hr1SoPc
• Introduction to Haptic Encounters with Georgina Kleege: https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/370
•  Signing Black in America (on our Google Drive and CANVAS
• Through Deaf Eyes (on e-reserves, but not using Kanopy)
• Exploring the Sound of Silence with Artist Christine Sun Kim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FI5Z_aw3Fc
• Christine Sun Kim's TED Talk: "The enchanting music of sign language"  https://youtu.be/2Euof4PnjDk
• . Peter Hauser,'s TEDxGallaudet Talk, " Effects of Linguisticism and Audism on the Developing Deaf Person". https://youtu.be/73zUW76OOxg 
•  Isidore Niyongabo's TED talk "Deaf and Destined to Bridge the World" https://youtu.be/XLje7b52sfs
• Georgina Kleege's Haptic Museum Tour:
  • https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/370
  • https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/364
  • https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/365
  • https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/366
  • https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/367
  • https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/368
  • https://thecjm.org/learn_resources/369

Midterm Assignment:

• Audio/Textual Description (Part 1 Due Wed , April 22; Part II Due Wed April 29)

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Four (April 21 & 23): Disability and Citizenship | Advertising

Reading:

• Tues
  • Sae Okura, "The last suffrage movement in Japan Voting rights for persons under guardianship" CV
  • Stacy Clifford Simplican, (2015)"Introduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability" [I've also included the optional reading: "Ch 5: Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming Empowered" in The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship CV (electronic copy of the whole book is available through UCSD library: http://roger.ucsd.edu/record=b9388622~S9 )
• Wed: Midterm Assignment Part I due at 11:59pm
• Thurs
  • Beth Haller, "Are Disability Images in Advertising Becoming Bold And Daring? An Analysis of Prominent Themes in US and UK Campaigns" http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/716/893 (this article is a versition of Haller's chapter, "Advertising Boldly Moves Disability Images Forward, " in Representing Disability in an Ableist world: Essays on Mass Media.
• Optional Reading:
  • Charles Riley II, "And Here's the Pitch: How Advertising Uses Disability," in Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change (University Press of New England, 2005) CV
  • Paul Longmore, "'Heaven's Special Child': The Making of Poster Children," in The Disability Studies Reader.CV
  • Harlan Hahn, "Advertising the acceptable employable image: Disability and capitalism," in Policy Studies Journal, Vol 15, 3,CV
  • Public Radio International, "Becky, Barbie's friend who uses a wheelchair, was discontinued."CV

View: Kazuo Hara, Goodbye CP (Japan, 1972) [Sayonara CP on the Google Drive] and in the CANVAS media gallery

• click on "expanded" below

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Five (April 28 & 30): Technology, Access, and Designing for Inclusion

Read:

• Tues
  • Graham Pullin, "Fashion Meets Discretion" in Design Meets Disability. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.CV,
  • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, "Misfits: a Feminist Materialist Disability Concept," Hypatia vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer, 2011)CV
  • Optional: Aimi Hamraie, "Designing Collective Access: A Feminist Disability Theory of Universal Design," in DSQ Vol 33, No 4 (2013)CV
  • Optional: Keywords: "Access," "Design", "Impairment", "Normal" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, CV
• Wed: Midterm Assignment Part II due at 11:59pm
• Thurs
• Alicia Kestrell Verlager "The Prosthetic Eye" in Sherry Turkle, ed, The Inner History of Devices. (MIT Press, 2008)CV
• Joseph Cevetello, "The Elite Glucometer," in Sherry Turkle, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (2007)CV
• Optional: Rob Imrie, Selections from Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design (Routledge, 2005) CV

View: Regan Brashear, Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement (2013) CV or GD

• In class:
  • Henry Ford, "The Terror of the Machine," My Life and Work(1922). http://thoughtaudio.com/?p=1431
  • Crip Couture (chun-shan sandie yi) http://www.cripcouture.org/

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Six (May 5 & 7): Interaction and Aversion and the Mediation of Public Space

Read:

• Tues
  • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Selections from Staring: How We Look, (Oxford U Press, 2009) CV
  • OPTIONAL:
    • Eli Clare, "Gawking, Gaping, Staring" in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 9, No 1-2, 2003 CV
    • Harlan Hahn, "The Politics of Physical Difference: Disability and Discrimination." Journal of Social Issues, vol. 44, 1988, CV
    • Bree Hadley, "Introduction" and Selections from Disability, Public Space, Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) CV
• Thurs
  • OPTIONAL
    • Susan Schweik, "Kicked to the Curb: Ugly Law Then and Now," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vl 46 CV
    • Susan Schweik, "Introduction" to The Ugly Laws (1‐22); "Producing the Unsightly," (23‐39 ), CV
    • Tom Shakespeare, "The Role of Non-Disabled People in the World of Disability" in Diability Rights and Wrongs,CV

View:

• In Class: Selections from Rodrigo Garcia, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)n
• In Class: Selection from Robert Arnold, The Key of G (USA, 2006)

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Seven (May 12 & 14): Disability Identity, Intersectionality, and Community

Read

• Tues
  • No reading assigned--initial final project description due Monday at midnight (post as google doc in group folder)
• Thurs
  • Jennifer Pokempner and Dorothy Roberts, "Poverty, Welfare Reform, and the Meaning of Disability"
  • Suggested:
    • Adrienne Asch, "Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity"
    • Keywords: "Identity," in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, CV

View

• In Class viewing TBD

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Eight (May 19 & 21): Disability and Sexuality

Read

• Tues
  • Russell Shuttelworth, "Disability and Sexuality: from Medical Model to Sexual Rights," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 146-148)
  • Tre Trefethen, "Pity Dates and the Paralyzed Playa," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 149-153)
  • Keywords: "Sex," "Sexuality", "Fat" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
• Thurs
  • Richard L. Bruno, "Devotees, Pretenders and Wannabes: Two Cases of Factitious Disability Disorder"
  • Raymond J. Aguilera, "Disability and Delight: Staring Back at the Devotee Community"
  • Per Solvang, "The Amputee Body Desired: Beauty Destabilized? Disability Re-valued?"

View:

• Nomy Lamm, & Patty Berne, Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility (also--associated website/videos)

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Nine (May 26 & 28): Learning and Assistive Technology; Performing Disability

Read:

• Tues
  • Keywords: "Accomodation" "Education" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, CV
  • Selections from Tim Corcoran, Julie White, Ben Whitburn (eds.) Disability Studies: Educating for Inclusion (SensePublishers, 2015)
  • Marie oeller & Julie Jung, "Sites of Normalcy: Understanding Online Education as Prosthetic Technology Keywords" DSQ
• Thurs
  • Selections, D.H. Rose & A. Meyer, Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. (ASCD Press, 2002)

View:

• Sharon Daniel's, Public Secrets

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Ten (June 2 & 4): Disability in Transnational Perspective

Read:

• Tues
  • Benjamin Fraser, selections from Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts
• Thurs

View:

• Selections from Kazuo Hara, Goodbye CP (Japan, 1972) [Sayonara CP]

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Finals Week (Thurs, June 11, 7-10pm): FINAL Project Documentation/Reflection Due

 

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Films and Videos: