UO Disability and Ageing: Diversity and Discrimination

Course aim

To enable students to critically analyse discourses of ageing and (dis)ability, legal rights of redress, elder abuse and related violence against the aged and those with disabilities.

Course content

Students will develop a critical understanding of the discourses of ageing and (dis)ability, examining media representations of disability and ageing, medical and social models of disability and ageing, social activism, the Disability Discrimination Act (Australia), and disability, and ageing and socio-economic status. Students will evaluate the impact of ableist discourses on understandings of disability and ageing in different national and international contexts.

Textbooks

Nil

Prerequisites

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching Method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Continuous assessment, Major essay

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4S)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation