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Room #313, Stong College | gradcds@yorku.ca | yorku.ca/gradstudies/cds/ |
The MA and PhD degrees of the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies offer a comprehensive curriculum covering diverse scholarly perspectives. The program structure and environment encourages advanced research, new scholarship and provides opportunities to contribute to the field. Both programs enable a multidisciplinary group of students to explore disability in relation to social policy, social justice, human rights issues, and social, historical and cultural movements in Canada and internationally.
In particular, the programs provide graduate students with the ability to:
- critically understand existing policies and practices relating to disability, as well as Canadian and international laws and instruments governing human rights and protections for people with disabilities;
- present theories of human rights as a basis for understanding existing legal, economic and social rationales for inclusion in relation to systemic barriers and oppression;
- situate key debates in disability studies in both historical and contemporary contexts, including understanding how issues relating to disability are interpreted and advanced in both an academic setting and in public and private policy and programming;
- recognize the importance of racialization, poverty, gender, sexuality and class issues as they intersect with disability;
- foster critical studies of activism and activist histories;
- influence public policy at federal, provincial and local levels and contribute to movements for social justice and human rights;
- contribute to an evidence-based body of knowledge on people with disabilities at the international, national and local level in the health, education, social policy and legal sectors; and,
- apply qualitative and quantitative research skills to policy research and longitudinal studies.
The PhD program is geared towards students who wish to further develop their critical understanding of disability both as an independent issue and as an issue that raises fundamental questions relating to the meaning of equality, legal distinctions of classes of people, issues of difference as a social, historical and cultural category, applied human rights, the social and legal construction of inequality, and the implications of inclusion as opposed to add-on programs and services.
The MA program can be completed either on a part-time or full-time basis. The PhD program can be completed on a full-time basis.
Please consult the online application materials at https://cds.gradstudies.yorku.ca/programs/. Prospective applicants may contact the Graduate Program Office for Critical Disability Studies, 313 Stong College, gradcds@yorku.ca.