COMS 372 - Comm,Disability & Soc Just

Unit(s): 4

An advanced service-learning course designed to examine the attitudes and perceptions of and toward persons with disabilities, how communication creates and perpetuates an inaccurate and unjust depiction of disabled persons, the communicative behaviors of persons who are disabled and the nondisabled during their interaction, and how theories of communication and social justice can illuminate how this socially interactive inequity may be remedied.

Prerequisite: COMS 253
College of Arts and Sciences