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GISD 620 - International Disability Policy

3 Credit(s)

Description:
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is creating a common, international understanding of disability and the rights and opportunities that should be available to persons with disabilities. The course will look at variability among policy approaches as well as how these policies reflect evolving models of disability. Students will look at specific employment and education policies in-depth and conduct a policy analysis using contemporary models of disabilities as their framework for analysis. Issues related to the Millennium Goals United General Assembly (2000) and the inclusion of people with disabilities as well as the challenges of quantifying outcomes and their impact on goals within a disability context will also be addressed.

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