Bachelor of Arts - Pre-Health - Disability Studies

The BA major in pre-health studies with a concentration in the humanities or the social sciences prepares students for medical, dental, or veterinary school by requiring, within the context of a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences, the courses in the sciences and mathematics needed for admission to professional degree programs in the health sciences, as well as a concentration in one specific field within either the humanities or the social sciences.

The concentration in disability studies develops “disability literacy” by introducing students to the distinction between “impairment,” an anomaly in the form or function of a particular person’s body, and “disability,” which comprises social and cultural responses – attitudinal, architectural, legislative, etc. – to anomalous bodies. The disability studies concentration explores how disability is expressed in systems of representation such as literature, film, and mass media; defined by legislation; understood by philosophy and ethics; created and accommodated (or not) by economies and methods of production.