Critical Disability Studies York University

Overview

The Critical Disability Studies MA program at York University is offered full or part-time to students from a variety of backgrounds, including persons with disabilities engaged in the disability rights movement, government bureaucrats, professionals in the field of disability and people working in non-governmental organizations such as community organizations and advocacy groups. You’ll have the opportunity to attend refereed conferences, publish in refereed journals and produce op-ed pieces right from your first year.

The program structure and environment encourages advanced research, new scholarship and other opportunities to contribute to the field, enabling a multi-disciplinary group of students to explore disability from a critical perspective in relation to social policy, social justice, human rights issues, and social movements in Canada and internationally.

Choose York:

• York offers the first critical disability studies program in Canada. It is research-based and deals with contemporary questions. Our program emphasizes the importance of activism among both students and faculty so that community involvement is an essential part of critical disability studies work.
• Faculty spans diverse disciplines including law, anthropology, health studies, geography, economics, education, labour studies, political science, social work, sociology, identity politics, gender studies, refugee and immigration studies, history and aging studies.
• We offer a law and disability course that is distinct within our program.