Spring 2025
CMS.337 Intersectionality, Neurodiversity, and Disability
Instructor: Kym Ragusa
Units: 3-0-9
Monday and Wednesday, 11am-12:30pm
Room: 4-145
Examines key theoretical concepts, texts, and other media forms by disabled and neurodivergent writers, theorists, activists, and artists. Investigates medical and social models of disability and their interconnections with race, gender, class, sexuality, age, ethnicity, etc. Uses an intersectional lens to address emerging connections between disability and the environment, investigating issues of accessibility in natural and built environments. Explores themes of visibility/invisibility, community, vulnerability, power, access, and creativity.