Course Syllabi & Academic Resources
Below are past course syllabi from college courses taught by Sav Schlauderaff, along with their comprehensive exam reading lists. These serve as free and accessible resources to especially introduce people to critical disability studies.
Course Syllabi
HNRS 195J: Beyond a Diagnosis: Exploring Disability Identity, Culture,
and Community
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Drawing from the Disability Rights movement organizing slogan “Nothing About Us Without Us” - this honors seminar aims to break down the stigma around disability through engaging with materials written and created by disabled people. Moreover, this course will be taught by a disabled instructor. Students will learn more about disability identity, explore their own lived experiences through self-reflection activities, and break down concepts such as ableism, intersectionality, and accessibility.
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Download the Syllabus PDF (2024)
GWS 487: FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HEALTH
COURSE OFFERED TO PUBLIC HEALTH, ANTHROPOLOGY, GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES, and SOCIOLOGY.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course aims to expand our normative understandings of ‘health,’ through questioning “Who has access to health? What are the social, cultural, physical, financial & behavioral barriers that block this access? Whose bodyminds are conceptualized as ‘healthy,’ and what is the role of eugenics in creating this ‘ideal’ bodymind? How is ‘health’ weaponized against oppressed communities, and how then is illness mapped onto oppressed individuals/identities/communities? How is ‘health’ currently commodified and sold to consumers? And, how can we re-think and re-imagine health to center those who are the most marginalized?” This course will build a feminist critique of ‘health’ through engaging fields such as critical disability studies, critical race studies, and public health, alongside reproductive justice work, current medical research, government websites, mainstream media articles, memoir, creative writing, and poetry. Through using an intersectional framework, we will examine health and access disparities within the medical industrial complex and learn to apply this framework to our respective fields of study.
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Download the Syllabus PDF for this course (2020)
Download the Syllabus PDF for this course (2019)
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Comprehensive Exams
SAV’S COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS READING LISTS. Click the links below to access the reading lists for each sub-field.
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Chronic Illness & Disability Memoir
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