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Disability: Perceptions, Experience and Policy
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:26
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_220 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Information and Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Agita Lūse | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge of qualitative social research methods. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To acquaint students with disability as a phenomenon that reveals the values, goals, attitudes and communication practices of particular societies and their groups, including perceptions of inter-generational relationships, gender relations, the norm and deviance, social justice, care, social inclusion and individual autonomy. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 3 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 5 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 6 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 8 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 9 | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | |||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | |||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | • Knowledge and understanding of theoretical models of disability explanation. • Knowledge of the main legislation governing the rights of people with disability internationally and in Latvia. • Knowledge and understanding of the directions of disability research in sociology, anthropology, bioethics, history and other branches. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • Analyse and discuss in a reasoned way historically changing disability policy guidelines, including in the light of international and national legislation. • Analyse, explain, evaluate and compare country-specific disability policies from the point of view of the self-defined needs and interests of people with disabilities, including from a personal narrative point of view. • Critically reflect on methodology to be used in social studies on people affected by disability. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | • Critically evaluate media representation of people affected by disability and their groups. • Develop business-like and inclusive communication with associations and organisations protecting people with disabilities and their interests. • Provide an understanding and knowledge-based policy document and policy assessment, as well as put forward proposals and suggestions for tackling problems. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Viss obligātās literatūras saraksts redzams e-studijās (tas ir apjomīgs un tiks atjaunots katru gadu) | ||||||||
| 2 | Garland Thomson, Rosemarie. 2018. “From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity.” Pp. 89–98 in Classic Readings on Monster Theory. Volume One, edited by A. S. Mittman and M. Hensel. Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press. | ||||||||
| 3 | Mattingly, C. 1998. Healing dramas and clinical plots. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | ||||||||
| 4 | Davis, Lennard J. 2013. The Disability Studies Reader. Routledge. | ||||||||
| 5 | Antze, Paul. 2010. “On the Pragmatics of Empathy in the Neurodiversity Movement.” Pp. 310–327 in Ordinary ethics, edited by M. Lambek. Fordham University Press. | ||||||||
| 6 | Ginsburg, Faye, and Rayna Rapp. 2013. “Entangled Ethnography: Imagining a Future for Young Adults with Learning Disabilities.” Social Science & Medicine 99:87. | ||||||||
| 7 | Ginsburg, Faye, and Rayna Rapp. 2020. “Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human. An Introduction to Supplement 21.” Current Anthropology 61(S21):S4–15. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Block, P. 2007. "Doing Cultural Anthropology and Disability Studies in Rehabilitation Training and Research Contexts," in Anthropology Put to Work. Edited by L. W. Field and R. G. Fox, pp. 85-102. Oxford, New York: Berg. PDF. | ||||||||
| 2 | Dammeyer, J. 2010. Parents’ management of the development of their children with disabilities: Incongruence between psychological development and culture Outlines - Critical Practice Studies 1:42-55. PDF. | ||||||||
| 3 | Frank, G. 2000. Venus on wheels: two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. | ||||||||
| 4 | Kohrman, M. 2007. "Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-Mao China," in Disability in Local and Global Worlds. Edited by B. Ingstad and S. R. Whyte, pp. 212-236. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. PDF. | ||||||||
| 5 | Odex, Amasco. 2016. The Holistic Model of Disability: An Alternative Approach. Kindle edition. AFODEX Publishing. | ||||||||
| 6 | Siebers, Tobin. 2008. Disability Theory. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.309723. | ||||||||
| 7 | Wilkinson, Mary. 2009. Defying disability : the lives and legacies of nine disabled leaders. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Apvienoto Nāciju Organizācija. 2010. "Konvencija par personu ar invaliditāti tiesībām". Latvijas Republikas tiesību akti. | ||||||||
| 2 | World Health Organization. 2003. Starptautiskā funkcionēšanas, nespējas un veselības klasifikācija: SFK. Ženēva, Rīga: Pasaules Veselības Organizācija. | ||||||||
| 3 | Zhivitere, M., et al. 2011. Annex to the distance education course "Ability not disability in workplace". Education and Culture DG, Lifelong Learning Programme Riga: Information Systems Management Institute. LNB:Grāmatu krātuve. | ||||||||
| 4 | LR Invaliditātes likums. http://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=211494 | ||||||||
| 5 | Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 805. Noteikumi par prognozējamas invaliditātes, invaliditātes un darbspēju zaudējuma noteikšanas kritērijiem, termiņiem un kārtību. https://likumi.lv/ta/id/271253-noteikumi-par-prognozejamas-… | ||||||||
| 6 | Disability Studies Quarterly. [The first journal in the field of disability studies]. http://dsq-sds.org/ | ||||||||
| 7 | Michigan Disability Rights Coalition. Models of Disability. http://www.copower.org/leadership/models-of-disability | ||||||||
