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Virginia Tech

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

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 29

Average GPA: 3.91 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 87.30%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.30%

James R Heflin202394.6%4.6%0.3%0.0%0.3%0.3%3.9219
Alice Q Fox202391.7%5.5%0.0%0.0%2.8%0.0%3.822
Damien P Williams202292.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.6%3.6%3.851
Stephen L Frommer2023100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.951
Joshua G Earle202194.9%5.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.963
Staff Shew2024100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.961
Hanna J Herdegen202388.0%11.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.892

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