Disability Studies - Pacific University

Disability Studies from Pacific University is a Campus Bachelor Special Education degree that prepares you for a Education career. No one is completely normal, and all of us, if we live past 50, will experience some degree , whether mild or profound, of physical and mental disability. Yet despite that disability is a natural part of the human experience, societies past and present have treated it as something shameful, if not horrific. (The Nazi gas chambers, for example, were first constructed to eradicate persons with mental disabilities .) Disability studies, from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, tries to understand why physical and cognitive differences have been treated as they have in the past and are in the present, and how they should be treated in a twenty-first century democracy, and why. This minor is designed for students majoring in any of the liberal arts and sciences. For those interested in health care, disability studies complements their science courses by focusing on the social, cultural, and political issues in their future careers and by concentrating on a population of people that many professions - physical therapy, education , medicine, and psychology, for example - are established to serve. Students majoring in the social sciences or humanities will be interested in disability studies\\\' analysis of the most fundamental ideas of our culture: body and mind, normality and difference, freedom and rights, beauty and wholeness - all of these \\\"abstractions\\\" and their profound importance may become clearer in classes devoted to exploring their impact on our laws, schools, hospitals, beliefs, and day-to-day lives. View more details on Pacific University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Special Education courses.