Disability Studies Honor Seminar

May 27, 2025

During Spring 2025, I took a Disability Studies honor seminar, and it was a mind blowing experience for me. We learned about disability movement, learned about social injustice barriers through the lens of people with disability, and dove deep into disability studies through scholarly articles. The seminar gave me a brand new view regarding disability: disability studies fall into the spectrum of social model instead of medical model like we always thought. Disability is a tag that dominant group grants to people in other group to suppress them; it doesn’t start and has little to nothing to do with the medical condition, but from the personal bias and social order and money influence. Now, I understand that they are totally capable of working and functioning at the same level as people without disability. There’s a lot to say regarding the seminar and how it changes me, but in short I acknowledge that disability is just an characteristic of a person, falling into the same spectrum of, for example, hair color, height, eye color, etc. This is to say that the seminar has helped me become less bias when working and socializing with other people in a diverse setting.