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  • Spring 2024 – ASL 301 – American Deaf Culture
    For this class on American Deaf Culture, you'll study the relationship between the Deaf community and the dominant culture in the United States. You'll explore issues of language (ASL), culture, self-representation, identity, and social structure. You do not need to know sign language to take this course.

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Disability Studies

  • Explores the history, cultures, and rights movements of people with a wide variety of bodymind variations: physical, sensory, psychological, intellectual, and neurodiverse.
  • Analyzes the intersections of disability with race, gender, class, and nationality.
  • Assumes there is no need to fix disabilities. Instead, we build a world that accommodates and respects the people who experience them.
  • Centers the voices of disabled people, abiding by the principle “Nothing About Us Without Us”.

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Disability Studies Advising

Dr. Brian Trapp, Director of Disability Studies
trapp@uoregon.edu
541-346-0508
Pronouns: He/Him/His


Professor Cera Smith

UO’s Cera Smith on UO Today talking Black Health and Healing

Check out UO Assistant Professor Cera Smith’s talk on UO Today. Their Winter 2024 class “ES 440: Black Health and Healing” counts towards the Social Model requirement for the Disability Studies Minor. Smith joined UO this fall. Welcome Prof. Smith!

Cera Smith is an assistant professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. They specialize in twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Black literatures, Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and

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Deaf Culture

Spring 2024 – ASL 301 – American Deaf Culture

For this class on American Deaf Culture, you’ll study the relationship between the Deaf community and the dominant culture in the United States. You’ll explore issues of language (ASL), culture, self-representation, identity, and social structure. You do not need to know sign language to take this course. ASL 301 American Deaf Culture fulfills a multicultural course requirement in Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance (IP). It counts as a Social Model class in the DS Minor.

ASL 301 is taught by Prof. Keith Catron, who has an MA in Sign Language Education from Gallaudet University.

Students playing unified basketball.

Disability Studies PE For Diverse Learners in the News

Picture of Prof. Michelle Dunn

Eugene’s KLCC reported on UO Professor Michelle Dunn’s Unified Basketball program at Eugene high schools. Dunn also teaches EDST 440: PE for Diverse Learners, for which DS minors can receive fieldwork credit.

According to the story:

“Michelle Dunn is Eugene 4J’s Adapted PE Specialist, and runs the program. She said it gives these students a chance to be part of a team.

“I think once families and students truly understand and see what unified sports can be about—leadership and togetherness, and motor skills, social skills—people are

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