Understanding Disability

You will examine historical, cultural and social attitudes on disability and disabled people.

Issues relating to social attitude, stigma and labelling, integration and social roles will be covered.

The course will require you to examine how disability as a social process affects the person, their whānau/significant others, and the community.

You will examine your own attitudes to disabled people, explore how personal and societal attitudes are formed, and how they can be challenged and changed.

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

Students who successfully complete this online course will be able to:

• Explain how historical and cultural attitudes and ideologies have influenced contemporary understandings of disability as a social process, and disabled people.
• Reflect on how personal perceptions and attitudes in relation to disability and disabled people are formed and impact on themselves and the lived experience of disability.
• Compare and contrast the diverse voices and stories of disabled people and their families/whanau and explain the importance of these narratives in relation to human rights and social change.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course.

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access your course material and submit assessments online. Our online courses may include reading, videos, quizzes or activities, and you may need to download content.

For online learning you need:

• Access to a laptop or desktop computer
• Reliable internet and data plan.  

If you are unsure if your current computer, Windows or internet access will allow you to study online, please contact us before applying to enrol. 

Find out more about online learning 

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

• choose the qualification you will study the course under
• check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.