STS-3284: Technology and Disability
Description: Technologies and the experience of disability. The ways institutions, laws, and biases influence how disability is interpreted within engineering and design culture. How disability communities resist, negotiate, adopt, make, and change technologies. Development of work on this topic through making, doing, and writing. Conversations about ableism, media portrayals, historical narratives, ideology, and rhetoric surrounding technology and disability. Includes field trips to learn about the law and assistive technology.
Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 6D Critique & Prac in Design, 10 Ethical Reasoning
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 32
Average GPA: 3.88 (rounds to A)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 85.84%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.28%
| Hanna J Herdegen | 2023 | 88.0% | 11.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.89 | 2 |
| Alice Q Fox | 2023 | 91.7% | 5.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.8% | 0.0% | 3.82 | 2 |
| Joshua G Earle | 2021 | 94.9% | 5.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.96 | 3 |
| Stephen L Frommer | 2024 | 96.1% | 3.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.95 | 2 |
| James R Heflin | 2023 | 94.6% | 4.5% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 3.92 | 18 |
| Staff Shew | 2024 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.96 | 1 |
| Damien P Williams | 2022 | 92.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.6% | 3.6% | 3.85 | 1 |
| Kulash Zhumadilova | 2024 | 42.9% | 42.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 14.3% | 0.0% | 3.00 | 1 |
| Jack R Leff | 2024 | 82.4% | 5.9% | 5.9% | 0.0% | 5.9% | 0.0% | 3.59 | 1 |
| Cora M Olson | 2024 | 94.9% | 5.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.95 | 1 |