School Of Social SciencesDisability and SocietyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101321.1
Discipline: CARE FOR THE DISABLED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 1
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
C2422 - Disability Issues, SS237A - Disability, Society and Care
About this Unit
This unit provides the knowledge, skills and understanding to begin working with and for people with disabilities. Social justice and human rights are the underpinning themes of this unit. The unit explores the meanings and ranges of discourses that produce ideas of disablement. It connects these discourses to the ‘disability movement’ and to systems of ‘care’ in Western society and examines the way in which policy and provision of services impact on notions of disablement. Students are expected to gain some first hand contact working with people with disabilities in a self-directed project in the community.